Re: Hacks

Geoffrey Clements <geoffrey.clementsNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Simon Dean" <sjdean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

Are people going round doing any brute force attacks?

Maybe it was because I had port 22 open (yeah yeah), but looks like
someone has brute force attacked my server, FC6.


I have a home PC that's on and off all the time, I also have port 22 open.
My logs show that I have brute force attacks on port 22 roughly every one
session in three, they go on for a few minutes and then stop and then start
agin a few minutes later. They've never been major attacks though and
they've never dispruted the operation of the PC (in fact I only noticed them
because I was trawling through the system logs about year or so ago).

Ditto. My Linux box is on all the time and has a static IP. The
attacks are not 'brute force' attacks though, they look much more like
someone attempting to log in manually and trying a few obvious user
IDs and passwords. Thus there is no significant performance hit at all.

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Chris Green
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