Hello Everyone, There have been major attacks on South Korea and other government sites over the world. You may have been caught up in it.
Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chip Davis Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PERFSVM question 2,500 tries over 2 hours is not an attempt to break in, that's a denial-of-service attack. Apparently there was a pretty big DOS attack on a number of Federal and other websites starting on July 4. They hit a ton of sites, and if you stayed up, you did better than the Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5icTKBW9_fm-oKDzns75BI- ykokSwD999UN580 -Chip- On 7/8/09 15:02 Jim Bohnsack said: > We saw a bunch of logon attempts a night ago to userid ADMINIST which I > do not have defined in the directory. There were about 2,500 over the > course of 2 hours. They were apparently not coming in thru an emulator, > so that pretty much leaves the web interface to Performance Toolkit. Is > there any way I control that interface. How can I get the ip address? > IBM used to have, internally, a mod that would double the amount of time > between each unsuccessful logon attempt to a particular userid. > Something like that would do the job. > > Jim >
