John R Pierce wrote:
On 03/08/11 11:47 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Yup. Last time I saw a story about someone hanging an unprotected Windows box on the 'Net, late last year, I think, it was down from 12
min to 5
min before it was attacked.
and how long after you connect a 'nix box before worms start port knocking on ssh trying stupid combinations of user/pass over and over? I see a couple 1000 of those a day
Oh, sure, I see lots of them, too.... Of course, the most popular username is admin....
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