On 12/25/2014 8:54 AM, Andre N Batista wrote: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:18:36AM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> On 12/24/2014 2:01 AM, Danny wrote: >>> Hi Bob, >>> >>> You were right, SFTP, FileZilla and Proftp confused the hell out of me ... >>> lol >>> ... I must add in my defense though that I was in a state of panic after >>> syslog >>> warned me of an attack by someone during the night via ssh ... So I >>> frantically tried to >>> make ssh and Proftp work together without reading the online guides >>> properly ... >>> >>> Sometimes one does stupid things ... lol ... >>> >>> Thanks for everyone's input ... >>> >>> Danny >>> >> >> Danny, >> >> As a side note - don't panic over SSH attacks. Instead, use the right >> tools and techniques to secure your systems and let them do their jobs. >> Monitor the server to ensure you didn't leave any holes. >> >> For instance, Fail2ban blocked over 100 IP's from accessing one of my >> servers on yesterday alone. The attacks keep coming, but none have ever >> succeeded. > > Not surprisingly, I mostly agree with the advice given here, we all > learnt from the same sources. > > Nonetheless, since you claimed to be using puTTy for your ssh needs on > windows, I should warn you that recently someone claimed to be able to > use it as a means to compromise a ssh server: > > http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/42 > > I have not put it's claims to test, but since the last stable version of > putty dates back one year > > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html > > and since there seems to be no mention of this bug on putty bug tracking > system > > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/ > > I guess you should deploy it at large, at least until it has been fixed. > > Good luck! >
It's possible to corrupt ANY program if you replace a .dll or .so with your own code. Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/549c2ab3.6070...@gmail.com