I periodically check on statistics on my server and noticed that for the last 1.5 hours, my bandwidth was constant even though I wasn’t doing anything. I started checking the traffic on my network and saw that some Chinese hacker (or script kiddy) was trying to get into my machine via SSH. I’ve seen a number of hack attempts into my server and normally write them off, but this was chewing up bandwidth, so I blocked the IP address of the attacker. I realize it is kind of pointless as hackers will use different IP addresses and there will be more later.
Why do people waste their time? My server is not very interesting. I wish people had better things to do than try to hack my server. I read yesterday that someone got convicted of a denial of service attack (DOS) last year. Maybe that will teach someone a lesson; probably not.