Re: [bitfolk] The perils of opening tcp/22 to the Internet

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Συντάκτης: Tomalak Geret'kal
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On 15/03/2010 11:37, Paul Tansom wrote:
>> 6) Move sshd to another port.
>
> Not something I'm a big fan of. I suspect that many attacks will check for
> something as basic as this, although I've not seen any evidence or analysis of
> this theory!


Paul,

I've kept my sshd listening on port 26 for as long as I can
remember, and have pretty much no attacks on it whilst my
webserver is hammered daily. Of course this is largely
circumstantial, but I really do believe that the port change
helps greatly!

Tom