By Josh
I logged in today and saw “There were 47183 failed login attempts since the last successful login.”
What precautions should I be taking?
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I disabled my root account and made another account with root privileges, and the problem has been fixed.
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switch your ssh port to something non standard like 2222 problem gone. It’s just robots.
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