Increase in SSH attacks as of announcement of rtld bug

Brett Glass brett at lariat.net
Thu Dec 3 04:23:25 UTC 2009


At 06:51 AM 12/2/2009, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>A very efficient measure:  Move your sshd to another port number.

This helps. However, I'd like to try single packet authentication, 
as it would likely work even better. (It's possible to find an SSH 
daemon on an unusual port with a port scan.) And it would have the 
advantage that it could be integrated directly into SSH daemons and clients.

--Brett Glass



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