{"id":13295,"date":"2025-03-17T01:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T05:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13295"},"modified":"2025-03-17T01:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T05:35:07","slug":"security-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13295","title":{"rendered":"Security check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I did a test login to my own server using the root account. The root account is almost never used for this purpose. I have not used it since, well, since April 28, 2020 it appears. Others, however, tried:<\/p>\n<pre># ssh localhost\r\nLast failed login: Mon Mar 17 01:27:21 EDT 2025 from 218.211.171.143 on ssh:notty\r\nThere were 181737 failed login attempts since the last successful login.\r\nLast login: Tue Apr 28 17:33:43 2020<\/pre>\n<p>Now imagine: if my itty-bitty public-facing server gets this many probing attacks (roughly 100 attempts per day on average), what do large service providers face? Madness and chaos, that&#8217;s what.<\/p>\n<p>And of course attempts to log in as root through ssh are by no means the only forms of attack that my server must deal with.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13295' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I did a test login to my own server using the root account. The root account is almost never used for this purpose. I have not used it since, well, since April 28, 2020 it appears. Others, however, tried: # ssh localhost Last failed login: Mon Mar 17 01:27:21 EDT 2025 from 218.211.171.143 on <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13295' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-security","category-personal","category-51-id","category-35-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13295"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13299,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13295\/revisions\/13299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}