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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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Re: Admins warned of brute-force SSH attacks 2008-05-16
Anonymous
They'll eventually start scanning on 2222/tcp, a popular replacement SSH port. I see no reason to run it on 22/tcp, changing it stops the scripts and a lot of noise from the public Internet.

If you change it to something really random and still get brute-force attacks, you know someone is really ...

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