• rien333@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    They probably can not. Unless you’ve setup your router such that anyone can connect to an ssh instance running on your PC, and then also use a bad password. Public wifi + having something like ssh running + having a bad password.

    Your PC probably doesn’t satisfy these requirements (yay!), but some servers might.

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        2 days ago

        You probably already do, but if you need SSH, use crowdsec, SSHGuard or fail2ban to help filter bot nets.

        I have IPs hitting from all over the world, trying logins all the time. Like several per minute, I can only imagine what it would be like if I wasn’t blocking IPs with multiple failed login attempts.