The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

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Sunday, April 26, 2015

Just a quick note on something I noticed going on today on the home network

The script kiddies are active tonight.

Chain ssh-block (1 references)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination         
   17  1812 REJECT     all  --  *      *       188.135.202.39       0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
   38  2272 REJECT     all  --  *      *       113.106.85.23        0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
    4   348 REJECT     all  --  *      *       117.253.105.235      0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
   19  2080 REJECT     all  --  *      *       37.190.87.219        0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
   20  2316 REJECT     all  --  *      *       187.72.49.52         0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
   16  1796 REJECT     all  --  *      *       201.75.109.180       0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
  512 25388 REJECT     all  --  *      *       218.83.6.81          0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
   20  2248 REJECT     all  --  *      *       177.70.122.255       0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
   15  1800 REJECT     all  --  *      *       117.253.215.122      0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
   17  2032 REJECT     all  --  *      *       117.244.25.226       0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
   18  2048 REJECT     all  --  *      *       134.255.165.240      0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
   17  1964 REJECT     all  --  *      *       187.49.248.42        0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-port-unreachable

These are just the script kiddies caught trying to brute force a login to my home machine over the past hour (they're blocked after five attempts, and the block remains for an hour lest I end up with hundreds of entries). I wonder if there's a quota they have to meet?

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