Am 02.09.2012 18:46, schrieb jdow: > Just a wee little note about uncrackable Linux. "Staminus.net" is a > server farm in the Fullerton Ca area. They proudly advertise Fedora, > AMD, MySQL, and other trademarks at the bottom of their page. > > It seems they either have a client who is interested in cracking other > machines or one of their machines, a Fedora machine one rashly presumes, > has been compromised and used to launch attacks. The gonif tried to log > into my machine via ssh 64 times. He managed one password failure and > 63 firewall rejects within 3 seconds. I sent them a note that 72.8.134.103 > appears to be a bad boy. there is nothing new and nobody with a brain would say any system is uncrackable any poorly maintained system connected to the internet is targeted to be cracked sooner or later by lacking knowledge how to secure it or ignored security updates ONE open security hole may be enough to take over a machine and in the worst case you do not notice this over a long time as said: this is nothing new
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