A little self promotion? Shameful cbq shameful..:)

josh @ besquared

Charles Brian Quinn wrote:
> On 7/27/06, Zed Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> <snip>
>>
>> Wow, look at all those wonderful usernames I can use to hack that box.
>> Now if I can just find the right server I could be in there like
>> swimwear.
>>     
>
> Especially since those pesky capistrano config/deploy.rb have all the
> passwords in there for you.  And, with .ssh_keys on most of our boxes,
> it would only take one to get 'em all!
>
> Our servers are constantly polled by programs searching for random
> username/password combinations (the message log is filled with
> attempts for common usernames), and just the other day we had some
> program polling our app for FrontPage (gasp! who still uses those)
> extension dlls and crazy large posting of \x000 \x000 characters to
> one of our forms for buffer exploits.  mongrel handled 'em fine.
> Maybe it's time to move ssh up to a different port?
>
> It's a wild world out there y'all.  ;-)
>
> p.s. the username on our box got cut off, it's highgroove_deploy for
> all the hackers out there...
>   

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