{"id":9077,"date":"2007-11-16T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/16\/ssh-scanning\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:15","slug":"ssh-scanning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/16\/ssh-scanning\/","title":{"rendered":"SSH Scanning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone else noticing a <em>lot<\/em> of SSH scanning going on?<\/p>\n<p>There just seems to be a whole bunch more lately, with most of it happening overnight. That is, 9pm &#8211; 3am EDT, 12am &#8211; 7am EDT, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I finally got <a href=\"http:\/\/denyhosts.sourceforge.net\/\">DenyHosts<\/a> working properly things seem to be a bit better. (I&#8217;d stupidly bolted on to a default hosts.allow which had an <tt>ALL : ALL : allow<\/tt> up near the top in the comments, which I didn&#8217;t read.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m up to 650-some blocked hosts, and I&#8217;m fairly sure there will be another 10 or so today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone else noticing a lot of SSH scanning going on? There just seems to be a whole bunch more lately, with most of it happening overnight. That is, 9pm &#8211; 3am EDT, 12am &#8211; 7am EDT, etc. Now that I finally got DenyHosts working properly things seem to be a bit better. (I&#8217;d stupidly bolted\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12552,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9077\/revisions\/12552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}