On 7/27/06, Zed Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <snip>
>
> Wow, look at all those wonderful usernames I can use to hack that box.
> Now if I can just find the right server I could be in there like
> swimwear.

Especially since those pesky capistrano config/deploy.rb have all the
passwords in there for you.  And, with .ssh_keys on most of our boxes,
it would only take one to get 'em all!

Our servers are constantly polled by programs searching for random
username/password combinations (the message log is filled with
attempts for common usernames), and just the other day we had some
program polling our app for FrontPage (gasp! who still uses those)
extension dlls and crazy large posting of \x000 \x000 characters to
one of our forms for buffer exploits.  mongrel handled 'em fine.
Maybe it's time to move ssh up to a different port?

It's a wild world out there y'all.  ;-)

p.s. the username on our box got cut off, it's highgroove_deploy for
all the hackers out there...
-- 
Charles Brian Quinn
www.seebq.com
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