Friday, June 20th, 2008
(Continued from Highway to Dell, part five.)
Yesterday I noticed a problem with ssh on the Dell Inspiron 1525: I could ssh in any direction between the laptop and other computers on the same wireless network, but not to a computer outside of the wireless network. The issue was already reported ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
I get ssh login attempts almost daily, mostly from DSL, asian or eastern european IP addresses but this one caught my eye:
Illegal users from these:
75.101.221.220 (ec2-75-101-221-220.compute-1.amazonaws.com): 210 times
admin/password: 16 times
test/password: 15 ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
The last few weeks I have noticed some illicit ssh login attempts that uses parts of the reverse DNS domain name as user name when it tries to login. The last attempt looked like this in my LogWatch summary:
Illegal users from these:
195.38.107.55 (aquila.euroexpert.tvnet.hu): 9 times
root/password: 4 times
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