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pntshgl
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How bad is it for a fortune 500 company to open port 22 over the internet for all its linux servers?? Today, I reported this to my boss and he said "it won't be a problem, no one can login without a password".

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    @ThatDude we have some external contractors and they need to upload files via sftp
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    @SHA-16384 exactly, can you give me some cases/methods how this can be exploited without anyone knowing the credentials, so I could prove my point in front of the team
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    @Haxk20 I guess not, but they lock the user account after three unsuccessful login attempts
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    @pntshgl welcome to devRant :)
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    @Haxk20 yup, trying for that. But you know these corporates.. it will take approval from 5 different people, then one of them will say we can't do that it will impact business... Thanks for the info though
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    @Hedgepig thanks buddy 😀
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    Oh boy, it's one of the first things most scripts, bots, kids check..

    At least I hope you exclusively use encrypted and password locked keys...
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    I hope they at least do keys. Then, it doesn’t matter how many bots bounce off the login prompt, they aren’t getting jack.

    As a stopgap you might wanna install Fail2Ban
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