Fix publication date of "I socially engineered myself"

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arne 2022-04-12 09:01:33 +02:00
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@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ I am not an expert in server security, I mostly know the basics: Don't use stand
## Stopping servers is easy, too ## Stopping servers is easy, too
[fail2ban](https://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) is another really useful tool: It continuously scans your logs to see suspicious patterns like repeatedly failed login attempts. When it detects such patterns it updates your firewall to ban the IPs these attempts are coming from. When I first looked at fail2ban's activity, I was really not expceting to see that my VPS attracted enough automated login attempts to have a couple of hundred, sometimes a thousand bans triggered each day. None of the services running on it were well known, so it really surprised me and created a sense of a vague threat in the background. [fail2ban](https://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) is another really useful tool: It continuously scans your logs to see suspicious patterns like repeatedly failed login attempts. When it detects such patterns it updates your firewall to ban the IPs these attempts are coming from. When I first looked at fail2ban's activity, I was really not expceting to see that my VPS attracted enough automated login attempts to have a couple of hundred, sometimes a thousand bans triggered **per day**. None of the services running on it were well known, so it really surprised me and created a sense of a vague threat in the background.
Last weekend this feeling of threat suddenly became very real. Last weekend this feeling of threat suddenly became very real.