[Gllug] increase in ssh login attempts

[John Hearns]

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 08:59, Sean Burlington wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I have noticed a marked increase in attempts to login to my machines 
> via ssh.
> 
> I used to get the occasional attempt - once a week or so, but now I am 
> getting about 10 attempts per day.
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this ?
I've seen it reported on other forums. Is it attempted logins to
'guest' and 'test' accounts? Probably script kiddies who have
compromised a machine somewhere. Report I read on the Fedora list said
it was coming from a Korean IP.

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