Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?

Possibly not blogworthy, but: One puzzling side effect of running greytrapping (as in nxdomain.no/~peter/eight...) is seeing password guessers using obviously generated gibberish local parts (see nxdomain.no/~peter/shoul...). #greytrapping #passwordguessing #passwordgroping #spamd #ssh #pop3gropers

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Hm. Over at the facesite I commented on a post about #bruteforce attacks on a commercial network product with a link to nxdomain.no/~peter/badness_enumerate... and got a followup asking whether I have bruteforce protection "in front of" my ssh servers.

And this only hours […]

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Thanks to everyone who voted in my "Should I Stop Caring and Let IP Address Reputation Sort Them Out?" nxdomain.no/~peter/should_i_stop_car... poll.

I have since added the *seriously, folks* note to the exported files and told anybody who wanted […]

Should I Stop Caring and Let IP Address Reputation Sort Them Out?

Should I Stop Caring and Let IP Address Reputation Sort Them Out? nxdomain.no/~peter/shoul...

How long does data stay relevant in an IP Address Reputation context?

#security #passwordguessing #antispam #sshgropers #pop3gropers #blacklists #blocklists #bruteforcers #spam #cybercrime #ipreputation

Original post on mastodon.social

Should I Stop Caring and Let IP Address Reputation Sort Them Out? nxdomain.no/~peter/should_i_stop_car...

How long does data on misbehaving hosts on the Internet stay relevant in an P Address Reputation context?

#security #passwordguessing […]