[dba-VB] Goin' for the (browser based) gold

Thanks, Jim.

I'll definitely take your advice about port 21.  Our passwords are pretty
strong - as I said, there haven't been any successful attacks.  I haven't
tried a VPN.

I was exaggerating slightly about China; lots of the hackers are in North
America, so banning IP ranges would only be a partial solution.  I did once
try working through an ISP's abuse department, but ended up spending quite a
bit of time only to discover that, basically, they didn't care and weren't
going to do anything.

Doug

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Move you ports Doug. Port 21 is just uncool and downright dangerous.
>
> 1. Turn off Port 21 on your client's router.
> 2. Setup a Hamachi VPN on your and your client's computer.
> 3. VPN to the FTP server and Password protect access.
> 4. Create a good password like "{0ver+the+Hill&aroundTheBend!!}"
> 5. Block the IP range from that boy in China.
> 6. Send a note to the boys ISP addressed to abuse.***.com
> 7. Send an email to the boy threatening to call his mother.
>
> It works very and I have never had any problems since.
> HTH
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Steele
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:32 AM
> To: Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.
> Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Goin' for the (browser based) gold
>
> Hi Jim:
>
> I have been using a Filezilla server for some time to transfer data from
> clients.  The one annoying problem I have is that I'll look at the server
> screen in the morning, and some 14 year old in China has been trying to
> brute force the password all night, getting kicked off on every third wrong
> guess then logging right back in.  I've never had a successful break in,
> but
> it's annoying - do you have a solution for this?  I can't limit the
> incoming
> ip range as the server is picking up data from client computers which can
> be
> all over the place.
>
>