Re: Anyone else seeing SSH scans?

["Seth J. Blank" <sblank () vtsystems com>]

Yes, this is the third day in a row I've seen ssh scans for test and 
guest accounts across my IP block.

Seth

Matthew Dharm wrote:

> I've noticed that several *NIX machines I have running (all of which are
> located in the same IP block) are periodically getting scanned via ssh for
> the accounts 'test' and 'guest'.
>
> The source IP varies with each scan.  But I'm getting about one of these a
> day now.  Obviously, I don't have accounts with that name on my systems,
> but still....
>
> Is this something new, or just people looking for badly configured
> machines?
>
> Matt
>
>  

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Best Regards,

Seth Blank
Director of Systems Operations
Visual Trading Systems, LLC