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Re: Illegal user ssh probes

Subject: Re: Illegal user ssh probes
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 06:25:53 -0500
On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 17:39 +1000, Frank Hamersley wrote:
On examining /var/log/secure for several firewalls I manage remotely using
ssh I have observed a recurrent pattern of probing over the last several
that attempts to connect using user id's in the following order...

test / guest / admin / admin / user / test

Is anybody else seeing this?

Regards, Frank.


This was reported a few weeks back. There are a large number of hosts
scanning for default accounts. And yes, I'm seeing it too.

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