ssh attack update

Kurt Wall kwall
Thu Sep 2 11:39:41 PDT 2004


In a 0.5K blaze of typing glory, James McDonald wrote:
> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 
> >Last week the user names being attempted for unauthorized ssh login
> >increased very much. Users like upload, contact, info, backup, support,
> >oracle, msql, ftpuser, demo.
> >
> >So, whatever this is, it is not a static attack. Someone is adapting it.
> >
> > 
> >
> looks like it's time for me to delete my test/test and user/user accounts ;)

Especially the ones with "password" as the password. ;-)

Kurt
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