>tfw at least four unknown IP addresses ping your home server every night
>>58951899
>100+ pings to server
>The fuck-
>Remember I forgot which port the ssh was sitting on a week ago and tried everything in the range
Ufw my mans
I have everything blocked but 80 and 443.
>>58951964
Thats all they need, anon.
>hard drives start spinning up
>3am
>no cron job set for tonight....
>check ssh logs
>filled with failed logins from chinese IPs
>>58951899
So learn where the IPs are coming from and they won't be unknown :)
>used to work for government agency
>agency buys a bunch of commercial usb thumb drives
>like 60% of them have some kind of call home code in their firmware that can't be gotten rid of by formatting them
>agency never buys from any brand with factories in China again
>>58952763
How could that possibly work in a platform independent manner?
>>58951964
Why wouldn't you just use your router? Ufw seems like it would only be useful at protecting against other computers connected to the same internal network.
>using a random port in the thousands for ssh
unless it hits some major service port, is this a good idea?
>>58952922
Doesn't need to be platform independent, windows makes up like 90% of all computers out there.
>>58952763
you're lying
>>58952967
Okay so what you're saying is that the only people who are affected are the people who use an inferior operating system.
>>58952763
This would have been a major news story, at least on /pol/ and /g/
Quit making shit up.