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These types of attacks don't seem directed -- it's more like fishing
for unprotected systems.

FWIW, changing the ssh port dropped the illegal user attempts to 0 instantly...

- ben


On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:29:10 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt
<tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote:
> If I'm going to attack you I'm going to use nessus to scan all
> ports on your machine.