Technology

58150 readers

3669 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

42 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

To add to this, install fail2ban (most distros have it in their package system) and activate it for the various things that use username/passwords in your system.

Basically it monitors access logs and blocks the IPs that repeatedly fail logins.l for a certain amount of time.

This drastically reduces the effectiveness of brute force attempts - as long as your password isn't, "password" and guessable in one go.