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H On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 19:39 +0800, Abdul Bijur Vallarkodath wrote: > haha. not really! if u have really managed an online server u'd have > seen tons of attacks and login attempts on your default ports by bots > looking around for weaker systems. > > This is hence especially helpful, I myself have seen these bot attacks > reduce to almost zero once i had changed the port numbers of various > services on my system. Now, you are talking about someone sitting and > concentrating on your machine, thats a diff story all together. isn't > it? you are smart, you should have known all this. > > Abdul > > > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Steve <dlist> wrote: > Le 07-05-2008, à 17:34:08 +0800, Abdul Bijur Vallarkodath > (abdulbijur) a écrit : > > > just my two pence. > > and my two centimes. > > > * Change the ports of most ports like ssh, ftp, smtp, > imap etc. from the > > default ones to some other ones. > > > >From my poor understanding of security related issues, I > guess this is > totally useless since any (good) port scanner will defeat this > without > any problem. Remember, security by obscurity is a bad idea. > > -- > Steve > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > debian-security-REQUEST > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmaster > > > > > > -- > Thanks, > Abdul Bijur V -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-REQUEST with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster
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