[ale] 300,000 failed login attempts in 6 months!!!
Brian Pitts
brian at polibyte.com
Tue Aug 19 19:18:35 EDT 2008
Forsaken wrote:
>
> Port scanning an entire netblock for every possible available port is
> a very large increase in scan time (and if your IDS/IPS is any good,
> chances are it'll notice it). It's not a panacea, but it can buy you
> some relief from the joyriders unless they're especially bored that
> night.
That's just Amazon trying to recruit your box into becoming an EC2 node.
-Brian
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