[mythtv-users] Semi-OT: Blocking Brute Force SSH attacks

[Calvin Dodge]

On 10/19/07, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> If you've tunneled SSH traffic through to your Mythbox, you're likely
> the target of brute-force SSH attacks, some of which might well work.
>
> The most elegant solution I've found so far is here:
>
>         http://www.la-samhna.de/library/brutessh.html#5

That looks cool.  Meanwhile, I've never seen any unauthorized login
attempts on any system where I've configured SSH to use a non-standard
port, since the bots which are carrying out these massive SSH attacks
are all looking at port 22.

Calvin