[CLUE-Tech] more hack attempts

[Charles Oriez]

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At 12:03 PM 8/9/2004 -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:


>>They can attack all day long, and as long as there's no exploitable 
>>program flaw in sshd, it's highly unlikely they will ever be successful.
>>
>
>Even if brute force won't get through, I still find this particularly 
>annoying.  They waste resources and fill up the log files.  Personally, 
>I'd try to go after them.  The Internet is a shared resource--like our 
>road system.  The people who create havoc for everyone else need to be 
>taken off.

I have on more than one occasion sent my logs with a note.  Some of them 
thank me.  I had one weird one that kept insisting that I needed to send 
full headers of the email before they could investigate.

At this point, all they are trying to crack is root. We have root 
configured so that it can't be accessed remotely.  Only the console in the 
cage with the box can be used signing on as root.




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