Admins warned of brute-force SSH attacks

Admins warned of brute-force SSH attacks
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2008-05-14

Allowing secure shell access to a server tends to attract the occasional attempt to guess a valid username and password for the service. However, a spike in attacks this week has system administrators worried.

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Admins warned of brute-force SSH attacks 2008-05-15
Justin

Why use password auth on publicly available systems? If a system is limited to password auth only, then make an intermediate ssh hop required first that does not allow password auth.

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