SSH hacked?

[Knapp]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Mark Haney wrote:
>
> > Res wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Thats not entirely correct, on the couple of exposed ssh servers we
> have,
> >> we have never seen an attempt for root. They've thrown just about every
> >> other random and generated names at them, but never root, the scripties
> >> who write these things, in recent years are cluey enough to know people
> >> take measures. In fact of all my years, I'd have to go back to the early
> >> to mid 90's to recall the last attempts for a remote root login on ssh.
> >>
> >> Maybe its geographics, who knows...
> >>
>

I am the OP here and did you see that the breaking was aimed at root?

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Douglas E Knapp

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