[H-GEN] Blocking SSH exploits

[Gavin Unsworth]

> In the daily security report generated by our FreeBSD box, we've been
> getting a lot of messages like the following lately:
> 
> tempus.walters.id.au login failures:
> Aug 21 09:07:25 tempus sshd[14677]: Failed password for root from
> 219.238.239.178 port 39247 ssh2

Yes, same. Been going on for weeks now. I'm going to go for a port knocking
"solution"



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