If I didn’t look up to him as a musician so much, I might call him my friend. In any case, the inimitable Greg Howard is setting up a Stick seminar in Charlottesville during the weekend of October 16th and 17th. Looks like I’ll be going, hopefully with my friend …
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Great, more lunkheads trying to pry open Paul’s Magic Box. Aug 7 16:49:18 sshd[27205]: Failed password for root from 212.152.182.100 port 36424 ssh2 Aug 7 16:49:18 sshd[27206]: Failed password for root from 212.152.182.100 port 36425 ssh2 … …and so on.
WARNING: The following fraction is maybe the scariest part of all.
Leah, Okorie and I had a fantastic gig this evening at the Kennedy Center in D.C. We were even simulcast on the Web! Fortunately for all you folks who don’t live inside the Beltway, the Center archives its Webcasts, so you can see the whole performance here. We split the …
So apparently the White House is up in arms about the upcoming comedy film Team America: World Police, from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the constantly irreverent, irredeemably vulgar, and frequently hilarious South Park. Is there anyone at the White House who doesn’t suffer from Humor Deficit …
If this trailer isn’t the funniest thing you’ve seen all week, I want your life.
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. ?