Should I Afraid? (Someone trying to connect my ssl)

October 12, 2017 1.3k views
Server Optimization CentOS
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hi,5 minutes ago, I login to my VPS with username and password.
And there was a message that: "There were 142453 failed login attempts since the last successful login." (i login last night)

what should I do? someone is trying to find my password.
how can I solve this problem?

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snapshooter October 12, 2017

Yeah, people will always try to brute force there way into your servers.

Digital Ocean has a good guide on how to initial setup a server which covers securing SSH further than the default.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-16-04

Key Points

  • Use Public Key Authentication
  • Create a new user and disallow root login
  • Install Fail2Ban

You could change your SSH port but there is a bit of debate around that and personally, I leave it as default.

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aseemr October 12, 2017

Switch to a nonstandard SSH port
Disable password based authentication
Deploy fail2ban

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