Les Bell wrote:
Sort of. Changing the port used by sshd stops the completely clueless script kiddies, since they don't even bother looking at anything other than port 22.
its not even really script 'kiddies', its virus/worms that are doing the vast majority of that hammering on port 22.
and the worms are even stupider than the script kiddies. ok, I suppose the script kiddies are the ones who wrote/released the worm in the first place, or whatever.