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[ale] 300,000 failed login attempts in 6 months!!!
- Subject: [ale] 300,000 failed login attempts in 6 months!!!
- From: yahoo at jimpop.com (Jim Popovitch)
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:12:39 -0400
- In-reply-to: <003301c90200$e959c5c0$0301000a@S0030153310>
- References: <003301c90200$e959c5c0$0301000a@S0030153310>
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Reggie Euser <reggie at busicast.com> wrote:
> Yesterday's security report from my servers showed a significant uptick in
> break-in attempts from a larger-than-normal number of different IP's. Any
> reason to think this might be some sort of new concerted effort?
New? No. SSH brute force attempts are not new. You, as a target,
might be new. ;-)
Save yourself some trouble and run SSHD on a non-standard port.
-Jim P.