Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Day: <span>July 29, 2004</span>

Got my report back from the administrator — and yes, they’d been rooted. Another reason why it’s important to watch for security updates and such! Good luck to them as they reconstruct their servers. I thought about simply moving my SSH to a different port, but then I realized that …

Additional interesting information about the ssh probes can be found here. Looks like exactly what I thought, another script kiddie special. I found additional probes yesterday and contacted the source box’s owner to determine whether he is aware of the problem or not. I would bet that if I hear …