Fwd: Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge -- InformationWeek

2008-05-15 Thread Bob King
According to the Information Week article: http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207603339 One of the more interesting bits was that the attacks are shifting to a more distributed model to avoid detection by IDS/IPS systems, using botnets. Many distros

Re: Fwd: Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge -- InformationWeek

2008-05-15 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 09:47 -0400, Bob King wrote: I always thought that disabling root access via ssh is a good idea, but reading this I would assume it would be a good idea to just deactivate password access via ssh all together and limit access to systems with keys known to the host.

Re: Fwd: Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge -- InformationWeek

2008-05-15 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Thu, 15 May 2008 09:47:39 -0400 Bob King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the Information Week article: http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207603339 One of the more interesting bits was that the attacks are shifting to a more