Subj : Re: Three Password Cracking Techniques and How to Defend Against Them
To   : Ross Branham
From : TheCivvie
Date : Fri Feb 28 2025 15:15:20

-=> Ross Branham wrote to TheCivvie <=-

 Th>> I got my standard telnet port hit by a russian bot and it just kept
 Th>> recycling all the nodes. BBBS stood up load but it showed the bad
 Th>> firewall in my gateway's firewall. A new 4 thernet port PC has been
 Th>> ordered to become the gateway.
 RB>
 RB> The bots have been brutal lately. At times they'll tie up 3 or more nodes
 RB> trying to get in. Very annoying. I thought about changing the telnet
 RB> port to a 5 digit number. They don't seem to scan those higher ports.
 RB>

I changed my firewall to foomuuri and waiting to see how that behaves with BBBS. Trying to get fail2ban to work as well

TC


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