Accordingly, click on FTP Server and then on Add. Therefore, we will configure a new secure server. The user name and password are transmitted in. It is well known that by default an insecure FTP connection is offered. Category: FTP servers Type: Attack Summary: The remote FTP does not encrypt its data and control connections. The server configuration window will be displayed immediately. I'll look into the mounted drive options next week probably. With this in mind, click on Server and then on Configure.

I have blocked 438 IPs so far, from all over the world, and they pop up as fast as I can click them.

That's probably the same reason they have 500+ IPs acting instantly as soon as I block one. It's all 16 character random generated passwords.įrom the commands they're trying to get through, I don't even think they want the passwords, but rather infect it to become a zombie or something. We don't use the same passwords for the FTP as anything else. SSHFS looks interesting and might be more userfriendly for our parents with a mounted drive. The attacks are still going on, but it's the same commands being tried over and over again from 500+ IPs, and it all comes up as unrecognized commands. Getting a certificate on FTP seemed difficult, so we never bothered. We've had it for 8 years without a problem. The security isn't extremely important since it's just weekly backups in multiple different locations.

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