Re: Internet SSH scans

Jonathan Nichols <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.incidents
Organization pbp.net
Message-ID <[email protected]>
terry white wrote:
> on "3-2-2006" "Tom Frerichs" writ:
> 
> : but it seems to be only on hosts that offer web services
> 
>     the scans i'm seeing are not that specific ...
> 

They're not that specific. I see them against my cable modem all the time.

DenyHosts is a python script that will drop offending IPs into hosts.deny.

denyhosts.sourceforge.net

It's a decent way to deal with the issue. Simply changing the port can 
cause a whole world of user support issues.
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