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How do you deal with malicious requests to your servers? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I put up a vps with nginx and the logs show dodgy requests within minutes, how do you guys deal with these?

Edit: Thanks for the tips everyone!

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[-] lemmy@lemmy.nsw2.xyz 8 points 3 years ago
  • Turn off password login for SSH and only allow SSH keys
  • Cloudflare tunnel
  • Configure nginx to resolve the real IPs since it will now show a bunch of Cloudflare IPs. See discussion.
  • Use Fail2ban or Crowdsec for additional security for anything that gets past Cloudflare and also monitor SSH logs.
  • Only incoming port that needs to be open now is SSH. If your provider has a web UI console for your VPS you can also close the SSH port, but that's a bit overkill.
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