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Re: what to do?
From: Robert Escue <roescue () cox net>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:08:05 -0400
Bill Smith wrote:
This is someone scanning your machine for vulnerable users with default passwords to gain access to your machine. As long as SSH is kept up to date and your passwords are complex, I would not sweat it too much. We get scanned like this daily with our Internet facing machines.Hi Guys, I noticed that someone is trying to hacker into my machine. Please see below is the content of /var/log/security. what I would like some advice of you guys is, what will I do with these people? btw, I do have FW Cheers, Bill Aug 24 17:56:28 tiger sshd[8229]: Invalid user golfer from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:28 tiger sshd[8231]: Invalid user golfer from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:29 tiger sshd[8233]: Invalid user golfer from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:30 tiger sshd[8235]: Invalid user golf from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:31 tiger sshd[8237]: Invalid user golf from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:32 tiger sshd[8239]: Invalid user goose from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:32 tiger sshd[8241]: Invalid user goose from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:33 tiger sshd[8243]: Invalid user goose from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:34 tiger sshd[8245]: Invalid user gorges from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:35 tiger sshd[8247]: Invalid user gorges from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:35 tiger sshd[8249]: Invalid user gorges from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:36 tiger sshd[8251]: Invalid user gosling from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:37 tiger sshd[8253]: Invalid user gosling from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:38 tiger sshd[8255]: Invalid user gosling from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:38 tiger sshd[8257]: Invalid user gouge from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:39 tiger sshd[8259]: Invalid user gouge from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:40 tiger sshd[8261]: Invalid user gouge from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:40 tiger sshd[8263]: Invalid user graham from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:41 tiger sshd[8265]: Invalid user graham from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:42 tiger sshd[8267]: Invalid user graham from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:42 tiger sshd[8269]: Invalid user grahm from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:43 tiger sshd[8271]: Invalid user grahm from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:44 tiger sshd[8273]: Invalid user grahm from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:44 tiger sshd[8275]: Invalid user grandpa from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:45 tiger sshd[8277]: Invalid user grandpa from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:46 tiger sshd[8279]: Invalid user grandpa from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:47 tiger sshd[8281]: Invalid user green from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:48 tiger sshd[8283]: Invalid user green from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:48 tiger sshd[8285]: Invalid user green from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:49 tiger sshd[8287]: Invalid user grey from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:50 tiger sshd[8289]: Invalid user grey from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:50 tiger sshd[8291]: Invalid user grey from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:51 tiger sshd[8293]: Invalid user group from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:52 tiger sshd[8295]: Invalid user group from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:52 tiger sshd[8297]: Invalid user group from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:53 tiger sshd[8299]: Invalid user gryphon from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:54 tiger sshd[8301]: Invalid user gryphon from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:54 tiger sshd[8303]: Invalid user gryphon from 80.68.204.50 Aug 24 17:56:55 tiger sshd[8305]: Invalid user gucci from 80.68.204.50 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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