2011/3/8 John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>: > On 03/08/11 11:47 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >> Yup. Last time I saw a story about someone hanging an unprotected Windows >> box on the 'Net, late last year, I think, it was down from 12 min to 5 min >> before it was attacked. > > and how long after you connect a 'nix box before worms start port > knocking on ssh trying stupid combinations of user/pass over and over? > I see a couple 1000 of those a day disable password authentication before starting ssh :) -- Eero