Watch Out For LAN4u.info

Harold Hallikainen harold at hallikainen.com
Thu Nov 18 16:27:25 UTC 2004


Just reported it. We'll see what happens.

By the way, I REALLY appreciate all the time you put into this list!
You've solved several problems I've had, and I've seen you solve a lot of
others!

Harold

> Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>> I'm seeing a few thousand ssh attempts from 67.100.182.75 using a
>> variety
>> of usernames, but mostly using root and having the password fail.
>
> That's a Covad address (you know, DSL).  Note the times of the attacks
> and contact Covad.  They can figure out who was using that IP at that
> time and have the SOB booted.
>
> If you want to talk about attacks, you should see the stuff we go
> through.  Right now, there's two DOS attacks against us.  We had one of
> our upstream guys put in a filter, which helped.  The other one is
> really splattered.
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