What I Saw in My New VPS Logs: Automated Attacks and How to Secure Your Server
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I spun up a fresh virtual private server yesterday and decided to check the authentication logs. What I saw made me pause. Every single minute, automated scripts from all over the world were trying to log in. They guessed common usernames like root, admin, test, and demo, running through endless pa…
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- 2026-10-30 06:43 · DEV Community — AI
What I Saw in My New VPS Logs: Automated Attacks and How to Secure Your Server