Re: brute force ssh attack

From: Nigel Wade (nmw_at_ion.le.ac.uk)
Date: 04/29/05

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    Matthew Miller wrote:
    > On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:41:17AM +0100, Nigel Wade wrote:
    >
    >>For a virus to be viable it has to be communicable. In this instance the
    >>virus required manual "injection". Hence the 0-49 infections in 3 years,
    >>and the virutally zero threat.
    >
    >
    > But it wasn't quite manual -- happened through sloppy practices. This is
    > somewhat akin to saying that STDs are ~0 threat -- true, but only if you
    > follow safe procedures. :)

    It was completely manual, the virus didn't install itself. It was injected
    by someone breaking in via ssh and then manually downloading an infected
    file. It's not like a STD, it's like a virus which can only be spread by
    direct injection.

    >
    > Where are you getting your "0-49" number from?
    >

    That's the number of infections quoted by Symantec. 

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