Re: Interesting information about SSH scans

"Brenden Walker" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.dshield.general,gmane.comp.security.incidents
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:list-bounces-js9DF5ScdFUR2m3UPm69cti2O/[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Cid
> 
<snip>

> ** Scan 2 - Attempt a lot of strange passwords against the 
> root and admin account. Look bellow to see why I think they 
> are strange. Looks like the scanner is broken :) Received 
> scans of this type from 3 different IPS.

Those password attempts aren't all that odd.  Look at the letters,
numbers on a keyboard and the order they are in.  It'll make sense to
scan these.

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