An open SSH port means SSH attacks
If your Internet-connected computer accepts SSH connections, chances are half the planet is trying to get in to hax0r you — literally. Using Zeemaps and IP geolocation, we can easily plot the values on a Zeemaps.
I’m just kidding about Eric Rizzo.. But Eric, if that is you, don’t count on me for free beer at EclipseCon 
Posted October 9th, 2009 by Denis Roy in category: Uncategorized
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Gunnar Wagenknecht Says:
October 9th, 2009 at 9:10 am
What? Free beer? Where and when?
maarten meijer Says:
October 9th, 2009 at 9:22 am
But half the planet (if not more) is stupid.
I moved my entry away from port 22 to another and #attacks/minute dropped from 100+ to zero…
Eric Rizzo Says:
October 9th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Hey, I live on the west coast of Florida - I left Miami 10 years ago to escape the organized crime hax0r rings there!
Seriously, I’d bet a lot of those attempts are coming from compromised PCs in botnets and the owners don’t even know they’re haxing.
Denis Roy Says:
October 9th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
@Gunnar, do you have a dedicated feed from Google for “free beer eclipse” occurrences??
Gunnar Wagenknecht Says:
October 9th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Denis, it would just return your blog. Thus, I’ll continue scanning that manually.