RE: paypal scam - tracing link

[mylar <micros50 computer net>]

On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 15:58, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> >
> 
> Well, years ago, someone broke into my RH9 machine through a hole in SSL.
> A patch was available, but I had not installed it. Luckily all they did
> was install a program that went looking for other vulnerable machines. It
> also looks like password guessing is a big business. Since I'm running
> sshblack, I only see four login attempts from maybe 10 different IP
> addresses each day. Before I installed sshblack, there were thousands of
> login attempts every day. I can't imagine a system that does not lock out
> attempts from a particular IP after some number of failures.
> 
> Harold

Thanks, I'm gonna give this a try. I've been noticing ssh attempts
increasing  here lately Time to kick em out.

mylah