They were doing a simple dictionary attack using common usernames and it
is likely they have a brute force password tool as well.
> How much of a security issue is this? If they did guess a password -
would they have
> full shell access? If so - how is this any better than
> (say) telnet?
SSH ...
They were doing a simple dictionary attack using common usernames and it
is likely they have a brute force password tool as well.
> How much of a security issue is this? If they did guess a password -
would they have
> full shell access? If so - how is this any better than
> (say) telnet?
SSH ...
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