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[Discuss] Reading logwatch e-mails



On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 09:09:17 -0700
Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> I recently started actually looking at logwatch e-mails I had been 
> ignoring. These machines have sshd listening on the open internet,
> and man, there are a lot of failed ssh logins.

Fastest I've seen a new machine starting to get attacked by brute force
like this is about 3 minutes.

fail2ban goes a long way to shutting these down.

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