Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:18:16 -0500 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is this Very Stupid DOS Attack Script? Message-ID: <200504061618.j36GIGY5068963@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Luiz Eduardo Roncato Cordeiro writes: >Probably, what you have seen is a force brute attack against your >sshd. Unfortunately, this kind of attack still works. My thanks to all who have responded. I am glad to know this isn't more sinister than it appears to be. It did make me get religion and fix all the Linux systems I have control over so that one can not successfully log in as root with any password even though I choose strong passwords. Better to log in as you and su -.
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