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:Strong Passwords No Panacea as SSH Brute-Force Attacks Rise
Strong Passwords No Panacea as SSH Brute-Force Attacks Rise
May 16, 2008, 09 :00 UTC (8 Talkback[s]) (4695 reads)

(Other stories by Joel Hruska)

"Thanks to the end-of-term for many colleges and some K12 schools, brute-force attacks against SSH servers surged sharply this past weekend, according to the SANS Internet Storm Center. The sudden jump in SSH attacks merits a re-examination of how such servers should be properly secured. Jim Owens and Jeanna Matthews of the Department of Computer Science at Clarkson University have published a paper on the methods that such attacks frequently employ and on the best ways to defeat them.

"Linux systems may be secure against the viruses and trojans that can infect Windows, but running Linux, in and of itself, provides no protection against the type of brute force assaults Owen and Matthews discuss..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
One simple method is to make use of ssh- ...   Or, use ssh-faker   
Anon
May 16, 2008, 12:20:51
 
The simple way to protect a ssh server a ...   Reality not panacea whenever the morons rise.   
Rainer Weikusat
May 16, 2008, 13:15:31
 
The Fail2ban app. is very good at stoppi ...   Fail2ban   
Kim
May 16, 2008, 14:06:03
 
> The Fail2ban app. is very good at stop ...   Re: Fail2ban   
Rufus Polson
May 16, 2008, 16:57:54
 
One thing that people that oppose moving ...   Re: Reality not panacea whenever the morons rise.   
Micheas
May 16, 2008, 21:35:18
 
It always amazes me that brute force att ...   Sensible firewall rules will stop them easily   
Peter N. M. Hansteen
May 18, 2008, 11:21:15
 
> It always amazes me that brute force a ...   Re: Sensible firewall rules will stop them easily   
blackhole
May 19, 2008, 07:30:09
 
[...].> Sshd on ports other than port 22 ...   Re: Re: Reality not panacea whenever the morons ri   
Rainer Weikusat
May 19, 2008, 12:25:10
 
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