Re: [CentOS] Failed attempts

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:04:14AM -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote:

On Tue, November 28, 2017 9:21 am, Lamar Owen wrote:

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On 11/27/2017 02:02 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

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Pete Biggs wrote:

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• don't run ssh on 22, use a different port.

I consider that pointless security-through-obscurity.

Security through obscurity it may be, but it isn't pointless. Tarpits

are in a similar class; they don't help with security in the absolute sense, but they slow the attacker down, and that might be enough to prevent the attack from continuing.

There's the old saying to the effect that if you're a gazelle being chased by a lion, you don't have to be the fastest in the herd, just faster than the one running next to you. ;)