Uplift in SSH brute forcing attacks

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Uplift in SSH brute forcing attacks
A number of our readers have submitted that they have both experienced, or noticed the uplift in source IP's scanning for SSHD daemons. You can see the uplift in the snapshot taken from our DShield database. In addition to this, our reader Andrew also submitted some analysis of the hit count of some common account names: 1209 root 120 postgres 114 test 100 oracle 88 nagios 88 student 83 tomcat 77 ts 76 user 72 svnuser 72 ts2 71 demo 67 psybnc 66 admin 64 backup And this brings about an opportunity to remind our readers that they can submit their firewall logs to us to allow this ISC Handler, DShield and reader cooperation to expand. For details on how this is achieved please see our submission page. Steve Hall ISC Handler	Stephen 89 Posts Jan 18th 2010
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i haven't noticed any difference lately, i get bombed continuously with a distributed botnet.	Anonymous
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