{"id":9124,"date":"2007-12-11T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/aws\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:20","slug":"aws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/aws\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, I just received this piece of email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><tt>Added the following hosts to \/etc\/hosts.deniedssh:<\/p>\n<p>72.44.44.9 (ec2-72-44-44-9.z-2.compute-1.amazonaws.com)<\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looking through <tt>auth.log<\/tt> shows 18 attempts before things were blocked. Looks like people have taken to using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/browse.html?node=3435361\">AWS<\/a> for scanning. Great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, I just received this piece of email: Added the following hosts to \/etc\/hosts.deniedssh: 72.44.44.9 (ec2-72-44-44-9.z-2.compute-1.amazonaws.com) Looking through auth.log shows 18 attempts before things were blocked. Looks like people have taken to using AWS for scanning. Great.<\/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-9124","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\/9124","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=9124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12505,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions\/12505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}