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ISP routers are also a security issue, when that PHP thing happened I had to go through all my stuff and find what was vulnerable and either update it or replace it, luckily nothing on my firewall was affected. When sshole was the big scare I went and looked everything up on it to make sure I was not in trouble, I wasn’t I use keys with password authentication turned off, but that got me thinking I should see if there are any updates for my firewall. Turns out there were a few, I had never thought of updating a firewall before because the only times my ISP firewall would have been updated is when I broke something and the IT people would just decide to do their thing and break all of my configs, there may have been updates with that.
I saw that that sshole issue was really only an issue for people running older out of date systems, is that true?
I know I have a long road to travel learning the router, networking, security stuff but it is a road I will travel as I find time.
I do not entirely understand how the sshole works either, but yes I believe it does have something to do with some old thing where the attacker would just have to put in some stupid long password and some ssh protocol would let it in. Most of my homelab uses openssh, I do not believe this had that issue I have keys with password auth turned off so you need my keys to get in, OpenWRT uses DropBear and that did not have the issue.
From what I understand the sshole was a big nothing burger.
Yeah, that's what I gathered from the videos I watched about it, but better to be safe than sorry and just double check.