steve szmidt wrote:
> On Thursday 21 July 2005 08:03, robin wrote:
>
>>As you can imagine, Slashdot has had *many* intrusion attempts over the
>>years. The response from law enforcement has generally been
>>disheartening. It's good to finally see the FBI getting on the ball.
>
> I just came from a meeting organized by the feds and they were quite willing
> to give out contact info to send log files to, for the above purpose.
>
> They were of a younger generation, and very educated on the subject. Yes, it's
> nice to see the improvement!
Ok, I'll bite, if they really are interested in this information. I could
contribute 6015 attempted ssh login attempts from 39 different IPs since June
19 (over 3000 from one IP alone!).
Steve: Please send contact information if you can't post it.
I suppose I should install one of the lockdown scripts or change to an obscure
port since I'm not in the business of running a honeypot :( I've taken
reasonable steps to secure ssh access, but what if someone finds an exploit...
-- Mark Polhamus
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