A few weeks ago we ran an experiment to see how long it would take for some IPv4-only and IPv6-only servers to be compromised via SSH brute force attacks. We configured five cloud servers on Linode and Digital Ocean with the root password set to “password.”  The idea was to see how long it would…

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