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

[Augie Schwer]

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On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:01:40 -0700, E Frank Ball <frankb at frankb.us> wrote:
> 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.

I noticed the latest vsftpd has support for SSL to encrypt logins and the
subsequent data.

http://vsftpd.beasts.org/

Augie.


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