[ale] 300,000 failed login attempts in 6 months!!!

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 12:12 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> New?  No.  SSH brute force attempts are not new.  You, as a target,
> might be new. ;-)
> 
> Save yourself some trouble and run SSHD on a non-standard port.

I keep seeing this said over and over again, and I keep wondering:  Are
the attackers _really_ that stupid?  Wouldn't a simple portscan prior to
attempting to attack get rid of any benefit that this would provide?

	--- Mike

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