Dictionary attacks prompted by NANOG postings?

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