Subject: Re: sshd password guessing attacks on the rise
To: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus20041007T084355@dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: tech-security
Date: 10/07/2004 12:15:17 
In message <x73c0qzf3t.fsf@bonnet.wsrcc.com>, "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" writes:
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>The sheer size of the dictionary attack is almost certainly going to
>net them quite a few compromised systems. 

s/is.*going to/already has/

from what I hear on various security lists...

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb