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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 2008-05-27
Anonymous
Only a few of my users have SSH access to my servers and none of them have "common" usernames.

No remote root logins.. gotta su for access, only a few have access to the "su" command, which has itself been renamed.

SSH access is restricted to specific IP addresses by both the host level firewa...

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