Possibly not blogworthy, but: One puzzling side effect of running greytrapping (as chronicled in https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html) is seeing the uptick in password guessing using even the obviously generated gibberish local parts, and the sheer volume of tries (see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/should_i_stop_caring_and_let_ip_reputation_sort_them_out.html and links therein). #greytrapping #passwordguessing #passwordgroping #spamd #ssh #pop3gropers

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

And this only hours after I scared the cat by LOL from seeing that the #pop3gropers are actively trying the local parts of my freshly random spamtraps (see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html a bit down the page). #passwordgroping #cybercrime

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

And this only hours after I scared the cat by LOL from seeing that the #pop3gropers are actively trying the local parts of my freshly random spamtraps (see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html a bit down the page). #passwordgroping #cybercrime

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

I have since added the seriously, folks note to the exported files and told anybody who wanted out of the big list that I will remove them on condition that they track down the morons who use that list as anything other than a historical artifact and LART them.

#blocklist #pop3gropers #passwordgropers #cybercrime #ipreputation #security

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

I have since added the seriously, folks note to the exported files and told anybody who wanted out of the big list that I will remove them on condition that they track down the morons who use that list as anything other than a historical artifact and LART them.

#blocklist #pop3gropers #passwordgropers #cybercrime #ipreputation #security