[NBLUG/talk] I'm getting ssh scanned! Should I be worried?

E Frank Ball frankb at frankb.us
Thu Oct 7 16:01:40 PDT 2004


On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:16:58PM -0700, Bob Blick wrote:
} 
} And I suppose the ftp daemon is also susceptible (no I don't allow
} anonymous access)...

ftp is much worse, the password is not encrypted, so it can be sniffed,
then your hacked.  anonymous ftp is the only safe ftp (but I don't have
that either).  Use scp or sftp.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us




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