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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Justin

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

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Re: Admins warned of brute-force SSH attacks 2008-05-19
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Admins warned of brute-force SSH attacks 2008-05-15
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Admins warned of brute-force SSH attacks 2008-05-16
Jeff Sadowski

I started noticing such attacks from china and korea about a year ago I found sheller to be an excellent tool to help diminish the problem. Mostly I see root attempts and I have disabled the root account from being able to ssh in.

shellter can be found here.

http://shellter.sourceforge.net/

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