Re: SSH Attacks - What to do?

["L. V. Lammert" <lvl@omnitec.net>]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Tim McDonough wrote:

> The machine is used to provide access to his school work and some of
> my source code, etc. from remote locations via ftp. I also use it to
> share photos or diagrams from time to time via simple web pages using
> Apache.
>
PMFJI, but why are you running an insecure protocol like ftp on a public
machine??

> Thanks to everyone for the tips. I need to crack the books/man files
> on several to better understand them.
>
The best security solution is to use key pairs, .. the best defenst
against dictionary/DOS attacks is to blacklist the IP in your router.

	Lee

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  Leland V. Lammert            lvl@omnitec.net
    Chief Scientist     Omnitec Corporation
 Network/Internet Consultants   www.omnitec.net
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