By piccoloprincipe
via blog.sanctum.geek.nz
Submitted: Nov 26 2012 / 14:55
For systems administrators, often the first thing that comes to mind as a perfect example of “security by obscurity” is changing the port on which the SSH daemon sshd listens. The usual reason this is done is to avoid attempted connections from automated, brute-force attacks using common usernames and passwords, sweeping ranges of public addresses for open tcp/22 ports.
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