Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by rorykoehler on Thursday July 04, 2019 @12:46AM (#20351610)

You can also setup a VPN and limit all port 22 activity to your VPNs IP.

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Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by pbhjpbhj on Thursday July 04, 2019 @10:08AM (#20354761)

I know it's just an obscurity measure but step one is surely don't expose SSH on 22? Dropped my (home) attacks/scans to zero from hundreds per day.

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Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by rorykoehler on Thursday July 04, 2019 @10:24AM (#20354874)

You could do that but if you become a target due to unexpected viral growth then it's useless.

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Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by pbhjpbhj on Thursday July 04, 2019 @10:40AM (#20354994)

It's more "stops you appearing on Shodan" level. But surely if you can reduce the traffic then you are more likely to notice proper attacks.

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Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by rorykoehler on Thursday July 04, 2019 @11:09AM (#20355235)

Shodan is amazing. Creepy too. I used to spend hours trawling video feeds on there. Fascinating.

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Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by stevendgarcia on Thursday July 04, 2019 @06:46AM (#20353355)

Yep. I just paid my ISP for a static IP address to accomplish this exact thing.

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