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Re:The Honeypot Diaries: Thousands of Daily Attacks on My Ho... by matheusmoreira on Sunday October 08, 2023 @12:33AM (#37807893)
To me it seems ISP CGNAT is the only thing keeping people relatively safe on the internet.

> What are noobs like me supposed to do?

I'm not about to claim I'm some kind of expert on security but...

Don't let your computers talk to strangers. Your computers should only be talking or listening to you really and maybe other people who you trust and have authorized. If someone is not in that group, they should not even send back an error page, they should not even answer pings.

So set up single packet authorization so that your machines literally drop all network packets unless you send a cryptographically signed packet first. To these bots, it will be like the servers are not even there.

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Re:The Honeypot Diaries: Thousands of Daily Attacks on My Ho... by fmajid on Sunday October 08, 2023 @03:05PM (#37813436)
Or better, only use a VPN to connect to your home network. Ideally one like Wireguard that doesn't respond to unauthenticated requests, so from a hacker's perspective is impossible to discern whether it even exists or not.
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