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Re: [Full-disclosure] Brute force attack - need your advice

From: Abilash Praveen <contactme_at_nospam>
Date: Tue Feb 12 2008 - 12:08:07 GMT
To: "A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk" <A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk>

Ok - I may not be able to lock in the SSH to a particular IP, but can ofcourse try port-knocker and a non-password-based SSH. I will research a bit about these as i'm not very familiar with a port-knocker and a non-password-based SSH yet.

Thanks for your advice again. Thanks to Keith too. :o)

On 2/12/08, A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk <A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > have pasted and also the advice on keeping the SSH on a different port.
>
> run SSH on a different port? oka, dumb scanners wont find it, but
> others will. just dont use password-based SSH and dont let it be wide
> open to the whole internet (firewall it to the addresses you need - and
> add in a port-knocker if you do need to open from a different location)
>
> alan
>

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