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After several years on backup. I decided to take out my BBS again and turn on. I left it on overnight and when i woke up in the morning, i noticed on web, terminal and ftp i had numerous hack attempts. Trying to get access. They were using userames like admin and generic passwords. is that normal f everyone to see those actvities showing up?
on. I left it on overnight and when i woke up in the morning, i noticed on web, terminal and ftp i had numerous hack attempts. Trying to get access. They were using userames like admin and generic passwords. is that normal f everyone to see those actvities showing up?
After several years on backup. I decided to take out my BBS again and turn on. I left it on overnight and when i woke up in the morning, i noticed on web, terminal and ftp i had numerous hack attempts. Trying to get access. They were using userames like admin and generic passwords. is that normal f everyone to see those actvities showing up?
Re: Hack Attempts - Is it normal?
By: cheartsdale to All on Tue Jul 17 2012 08:17:09
After several years on backup. I decided to take out my BBS again and turn on. I left it on overnight and when i woke up in the morning, i noticed on web, terminal and ftp i had numerous hack attempts. Trying
to get access. They were using userames like admin and generic
passwords. is that normal f everyone to see those actvities showing up?
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I see them all the time. Makes me wonder what someone could do with a non-priveliged BBS user ID/pass.
I have wondered the same thing. Not many people these days even know what
a BBS is (and some might not care anyway), and I wonder what they really expect to do if they were to actually gain access to one of our BBSs.
One th ing that will keep a bunch of bots away tho is to simply disable
ICMP echo responses (block ping). Most bots if they can't ping an IP
will just give up. Now that doesn't work against someone activly trying
to hack you specifically... just prevents a bunch of the automated stuff from hassling you.
After several years on backup. I decided to take out my BBS again and
turn it
on. I left it on overnight and when i woke up in the morning, i
noticed on
web, terminal and ftp i had numerous hack attempts. Trying to get
access.
They were using userames like admin and generic passwords. is that
normal for
everyone to see those actvities showing up?
I see the same thing all the time. Just make sure your system is fairly
well locked down and you chould be fine. What I actually did on my FTP server was create an account called Administrator with a super easy
password and locked it down to a folder which has nothing but read only