Using FTP server with access from all the world is totally bad idea. I checked the logs - this was their first and only attempt. No plans (nor need) to open it up again in the near future. I shut the whole thing down right as they were going for a directory listing. I formerly had it going to share files within the house. But THEN, sirs and madams, I watched as the same IP suddenly entered MY uname (which happens to be a rather unique nickname of mine) and, after a few attempts, MY password. I watched, real-time, as whoever/whatever began to spit a bunch of garbage characters.įail. Well one day, I just happened to be down there and noticed yet another attempt. When poking around on the basement server box, I’d occasionally see some failed logins from China/Russia and the like. I had the FileZilla window opened up on a 2nd monitor most of that time. Limited access to a single directory containing the files in question. Then I left it open, maybe a month, just in case he needed to get back to it (also: sheer laziness). I set up an FTP server for my nephew a few weeks ago, just to transfer a couple files outside email attachment limits. So I’m (generally) pretty careful (as in, I know that FTP is not the modern, secure way to transfer files…but usually good enough, given my limited application). I’ll preface this by saying that I know just enough about networking, in general, to get myself in trouble.
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