Re:I looked through attacks in my access logs
by p_l on Sunday January 28, 2024 @08:16PM
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I am not blaming this on SSH (also, no longer in that org for many years).
I am just pointing out (also in few other, off-site discussions), that one should not even think of exposing a port before finishing locking it down.
Because sometimes people forget, even experienced people (including myself), and sometimes that's enough (I think someone few weeks ago submitted a story which involved getting pwned through accidentally exposed postgres?).
And there's enough people who get it wrong for various reasons that lowest of low script kiddies can profit buying ready-made extortion kits on chinese forums, getting a single VM with windows to run them, and extort money from gambling/gameserver sites. Not to mention all the fun stuff if you search for open VNC/RDP.
I am just pointing out (also in few other, off-site discussions), that one should not even think of exposing a port before finishing locking it down.
Because sometimes people forget, even experienced people (including myself), and sometimes that's enough (I think someone few weeks ago submitted a story which involved getting pwned through accidentally exposed postgres?).
And there's enough people who get it wrong for various reasons that lowest of low script kiddies can profit buying ready-made extortion kits on chinese forums, getting a single VM with windows to run them, and extort money from gambling/gameserver sites. Not to mention all the fun stuff if you search for open VNC/RDP.