On 04/01/18 11:47, Axel Berger wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
>> What do you mean by 'external LAN interface'?
>
> Your router does connect you to the Internet, doesn't ist? External
> administration is so "convenient" and "comfortable" that it may be
> offered by default and if not your security need not be worth much.

No. External administration is not offered by defaukt on a second hand
Cisco 527W

>
> On the other hand, getting at you that way will require knowledge and
> effort. I expect you to be safe just because nobody as qualified would
> consider it worth his time to look at your PI experiments. Now, if you
> hosted a sizeable customer database there of ran a political website ...
>

Even there, its surprsinsing how resileinet one can be. I do run a very
public websitre

Have a look at what was happening in October...

...a massive increase in traffic TO the server...

Till I got bored with the huge logs and firwalled out the fruitless
attempts to log in as root with every possible password.

Hint to hackers. Root login is in any case disallowed. Even with the
roopt password.

My point is that even with a relatively high profile and exposed machine
that has sshd enabled to all comers, they couldnt hack the thing in a
month of trying.

Whereas I know of people with varoius 'web tools' like joomla who were
hacked every few DAYS




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