[ale] 300,000 failed login attempts in 6 months!!!

[Jim Popovitch]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Reggie Euser <reggie at busicast.com> wrote:
> Yesterday's security report from my servers showed a significant uptick in
> break-in attempts from a larger-than-normal number of different IP's. Any
> reason to think this might be some sort of new concerted effort?

New?  No.  SSH brute force attempts are not new.  You, as a target,
might be new. ;-)

Save yourself some trouble and run SSHD on a non-standard port.

-Jim P.