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Re: [trinity-users] Re: upgrade trinity

From: Baron <baron@...>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 15:59:20 +0100
Hi Guys,

On Friday 12 April 2019 15:47:09 Mike Bird wrote:
> On Fri April 12 2019 03:44:55 Michael Howard via trinity-users 
wrote:
> > On 12/04/2019 09:03, deloptes wrote:
> > > If you are target or not - you do not know. I see in the last
> > > couple of months constant brute force attacks on my ssh server
> >
> > and upgrading will stop that? No. A bit of� filtering of known
> > spam IPs would help much more.
>
> Attackers mount attacks from the new systems they pwn - possibly
> including yours.
>
> It is not feasible to block millions of infected IP addresses with
> thousands more infected and disinfected every day.
>
> --Mike

More of a problem are the vulnerabilities built into the processor 
itself.  The kernels have some patches included to help negate these 
but also slows down the system.



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Best Regards:
            Baron