Slacker News Slacker News logo featuring a lazy sloth with a folded newspaper hat
  • top
  • new
  • show
  • ask
  • jobs
Library
← Back to context

Comment by kortilla

1 month ago

> I don't understand how people are dismissing that so easily

Because that’s not where 99.9999% of attacks come from

Fire up a web server on a public ipv4 address and you’ll get hundreds of requests per day from bots probing endpoints for vulnerabilities. Same thing goes for weak passwords on an SSH endpoint.

0 comments

kortilla

Reply

No comments yet

Contribute on Hacker News ↗

Slacker News

Product

  • API Reference
  • Hacker News RSS
  • Source on GitHub

Community

  • Support Ukraine
  • Equal Justice Initiative
  • GiveWell Charities