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 …
Today’s dumbass script kiddie award goes to: sshd: Invalid Users: Unknown Account: 2 Time(s) Authentication Failures: unknown (202-6-75-195.safenz.net.nz ): 2 Time(s) —– Failed logins from these: guest/password from 202.6.75.195: 1 Time(s) test/password from 202.6.75.195: 1 Time(s) **Unmatched Entries** Illegal user test from 202.6.75.195 Illegal user guest from 202.6.75.195 My guess …
Not much happening today, but here’s a nice picture of my family: I’m constantly amazed by how little I miss Microsoft Windoze. ?
Recently, Linda Ronstadt had a bad experience at the Aladdin in Las Vegas. Her comments supporting filmmaker Michael Moore apparently had many guests very upset. While personally I don’t see what’s to be so upset (or surprised) about in her comments, Moore’s letter to Aladdin CEO Michael Timmins is more …
I once went to the National Archives with a coworker, who had to look up a document for her boss. When you arrive at the Archives you have to surrender any containers, and usually unnecessary outerwear like a jacket or coat. When you get in the room to retrieve a …
This morning I sat down to get my e-mail, which includes server logs mailed to me daily from most of my machines around the ‘net. I found that some fugnut had been trying to SSH into one of my servers from the University of Geneva (yes, Switzerland). At least that …
Annoying telemarketer call of the week: My wife and I give to a number of state and federal charitable organizations. Typically the process begins several times a year with a call from a fundraising telemarketer with a request. If the organization is one whose cause we support, has good standing …
Had a great gig with Leah on Saturday at Andy’s in Chestertown, MD. Our audience was fantastic and this is a wonderful venue for quality original music from around the region. I’m still a little exhausted since I started on a sleep deficit Saturday morning and never really caught up …
Woo-hoo! Tonight I set up a Subversion server. It is available for read-only access at svn://svn.frields.org. Eventually I will be migrating this to using Apache and mod_dav_svn, but that will come later. Too much recompiling and installing to do on my trusty RHL 9 server for this late at night. …