Security by obscurity is underrated

Re:Security by obscurity is underrated by Macha on Friday September 11, 2020 @02:42PM (#24445998)

So I get 10s of attempts a day for my sshd on port 7xxx. If I had an account with say ubuntu:ubuntu, it'd totally have been found by now.

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Re:Security by obscurity is underrated by Sebb767 on Friday September 11, 2020 @03:22PM (#24446382)

I have 0 in the last 14 days on port 2xxx. Probably depends a lot on your IP range (I'd assume AWS etc is scanned more thoroughly) and whether you've happened to hit a port used by another service. But even in commercial ranges, I've seen hardly any hits on >10k.

But I have only anecdotal evidence as well, so my guess is as good as yours.

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Re:Security by obscurity is underrated by theelous3 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @08:26AM (#24451920)

So scale the other aide up too. Just imagine what it's like on 22.

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