Re: Fwd: Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge -- InformationWeek

2008-05-15 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Thu, 15 May 2008 09:47:39 -0400 "Bob King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to the Information Week article: > > http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207603339 > > One of the more interesting bits was that the attacks are shifting to a more >

Re: Fwd: Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge -- InformationWeek

2008-05-15 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 09:47 -0400, Bob King wrote: > I always thought that disabling root access via ssh is a good idea, > but reading this I would assume it would be a good idea to just > deactivate password access via ssh all together and limit access to > systems with keys known to the host. Mo

Fwd: Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge -- InformationWeek

2008-05-15 Thread Bob King
According to the Information Week article: http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207603339 One of the more interesting bits was that the attacks are shifting to a more distributed model to avoid detection by IDS/IPS systems, using botnets. Many distros