On May 14, 2009, at 9:46 AM, James B. Byrne wrote:
- Moving pass the obvious and unhelpful "everything", what services
are particularly vulnerable to these types of attacks? Does a list exist anywhere?
If it's reachable over the 'net, it will eventually get pounded.
POP, IMAP, SMTP Auth, FTP, SSH are obvious targets.
Movable Type / Wordpress blogs are popular targets for link spammers.
Cpanel, webmin, phpMyAdmin and similar applications get pounded on less often, but you'll still get hit.
--Chris