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Re: what to do?

Subject: Re: what to do?
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 11:50:06 +0100
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 00:30 -0700, Bill Smith wrote:
Hi Guys,

I noticed that someone is trying to hacker into my
machine. Please see below is the content of
/var/log/security.
what I would like some advice of you guys is, what
will I do with these people?
btw, I do have FW


Automated SSH scans that have been happening for a while.
If you aren't getting them then your SSH server isn't working :-P .

There are a few ways to stop them cluttering up your logs, simplest is
to put SSH on a port other than 22, as these are not often targeted
scans - they are blanket scans. Another effective technique is to drop
any IP's that appear to be brute forcing you , eg...
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/187

Generally this is nothing to worry about if you have decent passwords on
your user accounts, but the log clutter can be a nuisance.

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