[CentOS] Defending againts simultanious attacks
Jens Ahlin
mailing_lists+centos at caleotech.comThu Feb 15 13:06:35 UTC 2007
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Why not change the port that the SSH daemon listens to. Change it to use an unused port > 1024 and you will see that the attempt will stop. Jens > Hi, > > i have one centos 4.3 box, exposed to the internet. > since several weeks ago, i found numerous attemps to connect through > SSH, but failed. > > they tried with many username, including root. > it's comes from different IP. some of them are foreign website. > > How do i make my centos become smarter in handling this kind of attacks. > > eventhough i've disable all the user accounts, left only the admin > accounts. making the password so hard, longer and combining alphabet, > numbers and characters... yet i dont want the attackers keep on > trying. > > any suggestions? > > thanks in advance. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
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