On 04/01/18 20:58, Chris Green wrote:
> 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.
>
Well I have to have it openm else how could I receive global email?

Ditto https and https. You cant run webservers if the world is
firewalled out.

Naturally there are comnstantt attempts to hack into all these serviecs,
but sincef I dont runs 'standard' sofwtare liek wordpress, phpmydamnin,
jooomla, ISP style mail logins...they are all simply network load that
leads to nothing.

None of the hack attempts have even come close.


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