Break-In Attempt -- Now What?

[Rob Sutherland]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:13:21 -0500
CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
> 
> Rob, when you say they "hit" your box last week, what do you mean? Did they 
> just attempt to connect via ssh, which I do not see as a big deal, or did 
> they successfully get a shell, which *is* a big deal?

It was just as the original poster described - several thousand attempts to log 
in as various names in a few minutes. It was really more of a DOS problem than 
anything else.

Rob 




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