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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 they can't guess your username(s), what's the point?

I'll eat my shoes if I see my username appear on one of those brute-force attacks....

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