Re: Dictionary attacks prompted by NANOG postings?

2008-01-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Jan 17, 2008 12:13 PM, Barry Shein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once again shortly after posting a message to NANOG a fairly significant dictionary attack using Earthlink's mail servers fired up. The same thing happened around Nov 30th (I posted about it here.) Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc.

Dictionary attacks prompted by NANOG postings?

2008-01-16 Thread Barry Shein
Once again shortly after posting a message to NANOG a fairly significant dictionary attack using Earthlink's mail servers fired up. The same thing happened around Nov 30th (I posted about it here.) Does this happen to anyone else posting here? It's pretty clearly a lame attempt to intimidate

Re: Dictionary attacks prompted by NANOG postings?

2008-01-16 Thread Randy Bush
Does this happen to anyone else posting here? not that i have noticed. i do see massively ( 5x) more ssh dict attacks on the hosts i have in tokyo than those on other continents. but the sample size is too small to draw any serious conclusions. but i would guess there are folk who