alt Hacker Newsshrug
In 25 years of hosting a dozen domain names on a server on my home connection, this problem has not surfaced for me.
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wolvoleo • last Saturday at 11:42 PM
One time has to be the first and when you get hacked they're instantly inside your network unless you were smart enough to set up a DMZ or something.
Especially if you host something like wordpress with plugins you really have to be on the ball with updates.
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zikduruqe • last Sunday at 1:33 AM
Yep, same here. fail2ban and some http 444 helps out.
In 20 years of managing server fleets, I always had the pleasure of watching bots taking a dig at my server(s) the moment I give their public IPs and enable their interfaces.
For someone who knows what they are doing, it's more like mosquito noise, a mere nuisance, but even then, using a rock solid system with all updates installed carries the risk of having a zero-day.
If your server is networked to the rest of the house, and if somebody manages to get in, then it's all fun(!).