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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
Anonymous
If possible, use the AllowUsers directive in sshd_config to limit access to specific users, and/or the hosts.allow/deny files to permit certain users from specific network ranges or not at all from other ranges, etc; ssh is tcp_wrapper friendly). Of course the firewall is your friend also (but shou...

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