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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 2008-11-28
Anonymous
Most of the comments missed the point of these attacks being 'low and slow' and/or distributed. Blocking scripts will not catch such attacks (I'm experiencing them now and am having a hard time blocking them). About the only thing that will mitigate this threat is to turn off SSH, move the listeni...

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