Dictionary attacks prompted by NANOG postings?
Randy Bush
randy at psg.com
Thu Jan 17 07:05:04 UTC 2008
> Does this happen to anyone else posting here?
not that i have noticed. i do see massively (> 5x) more ssh dict
attacks on the hosts i have in tokyo than those on other continents.
but the sample size is too small to draw any serious conclusions. but i
would guess there are folk who actually study this.
> It's pretty clearly a lame attempt to intimidate by some loser.
rofl. seems a pretty paranoid conclusion to which to leap. could just
be a list address harvester for a bunch of lists.
i figure that, since my hosts don't even do password ssh, that having
password guessers go after my hosts is my contribution to reducing the
attacks on more vulnerable hosts.
randy
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