Re: Uptick in SSH scanning?

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On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Chris Adams wrote:

> Has anyone else seen a significant rise in SSH scanning in the last day
> or two?  Rather than my usual short list of blocked hosts (usually under
> 10), I've got several hundred blocked right now, and virtually all for
> SSH login attempts with invalid users.

I saw a huge spike yesterday on one host, but I just thought that was an 
anomoly.  While we're on the topic, coes anyone know of a good 
BruteBlocker type program that uses null routing instead of firewalling 
(similar to what portsentry can be configured to do)?

James Smallacombe		      PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
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