On Friday 15 July 2005 10:59, Chuck Hast wrote:
> On 7/15/05, steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
>
> Meantime I am going to go to very long and very ugly passwords in order
> to make their life a bit more difficult.
If you look at the login names used by these scripts you see that they are all
lower case, single names. Quite normal names too.
Adding an odd letter to the name gets you right out of the target zone.
Of course, if you don't need to have remote access into your box, close it
down. Otherwise makes sure there's no remote root access, and login as a
user, then su - to root when needed.
--Steve Szmidt
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