The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
> >> Whereas I know of people with varoius 'web tools' like joomla who were
> >> hacked every few DAYS
> >>
> > Yes, it's amazing how many hits an open ssh port gets!  :-)
> >
> > I have mine set up to only allow connections from two outside sites
> > where I have ssh login accounts.  Thus I connect from 'somewhere' to
> > one of these two accounts and then from there to my home system.
> >
> Basically I have unlimited access from my (fixed) home address - I had
> opened ssh up so I could access it from  abroad, but I am back home now,
> so I have shut the lot down.
>
I use ssh to read mail and usenet as I simply connect to my desktop
machine at home and run command line mail and news clients.


> Now the only globally open ports are smtp, ssmtp, pop3, http and https.
> And one other I won't mention.
>
I only have SMTP open in addition to ssh.  I did have SMTP limited
(like ssh) to only some IPs allowed to connect (my hosting service's
mail servers) but that got a bit difficult to maintain so it's now
open to any IP.  It doesn't seem to get many unwanted connection
attempts, nothing like ssh gets.

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Chris Green
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