ssh default security risc

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandy Rutherford [mailto:sandy at krvarr.bc.ca]
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 12:48 AM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas; Gert Cuykens; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org;
> Chris Hodgins
> Subject: RE: ssh default security risc
>
>
> >>>>> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:54:14 -0800,
> >>>>> "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm at toybox.placo.com> said:
>
>  > restrictions somehow doesen't exist.  Not to mention that
> even without a
>  > static IP assigned
>  > to your home or other locations that you normally ssh in from, it's
>  > pretty
>  > simple to block off huge chunks of the Internet, particularly blocks
>  > assigned
>  > to Red China, where a huge amount of cracking and spamming
> originates
>  > from.
>
> For what it's worth (not much), most of the cracking attempts that
> have been showing up recently in my logs are from the USA.

Interesting - I wonder if that is because the recent virus activity
has opened up giant holes in the US.

Ted