[lug] Cracking attempts via SSH

Matt Thompson thompsma at colorado.edu
Wed Aug 25 13:25:11 MDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 12:17, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> Following up on this thread from last week, I just received a link to 
> the source code for the exploit ("brutessh2") that's been attempting to 
> crack SSH systems:
> 
> http://www.k-otik.com/exploits/08202004.brutessh2.c.php
> 
> The code itself has a list of usernames and passwords.  Hopefully no one 
> is using something like "password" for their root account, because this 
> will crack it. ;)

Sweet, looks like my "asdfghjkl;" password is safe.  Score!
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