At 05:05 PM 10/2/2005, Kevin Day wrote: >This is pretty common, I'm afraid. SSH scanning with brute force >password guessing has gone through the roof in the last 9-12 months, >but it's been going on for years. > >We announce a /19 worth of space, and see several hundred ssh >connects per second across it. The amount of junk port 22 traffic has >exceeded the amount of junk port 25 traffic for us now.
For us, it just did this weekend. Major swarm of bots, mostly from the UK and eastern Europe. I can't imagine we're alone. The sudden increase -- and the tactic of harvesting e-mail addresses and trying to match them to accounts -- were the reasons I decided to post. People are going to want to make their security a bit tighter. Spam, worms, bots.... This Internet thang is sure becoming a cesspool. --Brett _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
