[ale] 300,000 failed login attempts in 6 months!!!

[ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com (Jim Lynch)]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 12:12 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> I keep seeing this said over and over again, and I keep wondering:  Are
> the attackers _really_ that stupid?  Wouldn't a simple portscan prior to
> attempting to attack get rid of any benefit that this would provide?
>
> 	
Maybe there's enough meat to feed on out there they don't have to get 
that sophisticated.  Who knows?  It just seems to work.

Jim.