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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 2008-05-17
Anonymous
Use some of the IP blocking tools, a list a available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_blocking

Tools like BlockHosts and others for example can stop SSH kiddie-scripts after a few probes....

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