[Asterisk-Users] asterisk@home scary log

[denon]

Why would you even want SSH exposed to the world? In fact, why expose it to 
anything but your local admin console, or *maybe* a vpn tunnel server if 
absolutely necessary?

-d

At 10:08 AM 2/10/2005, you wrote:
> >The hack came in through ssh.
>
>IMO, your best defence is an extremely strong root password; I am often
>mortified by looking at my logs and seeing all of the login attempts through
>SSH.
>
>OT: I am not up on Linux script-kiddie type tools, but I assume that there
>is a script of some sort that automates SSH probes. Can anyone suggest a
>good counter i.e. honeypot or throttling logon attempts. Yes, I know I can
>google it, but I'd rather hear the opinion of real Linux experts rather than
>the "experts" at About.com.
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