On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:10:42AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > For amusement I checked the web logs for a few debian machines to see > if they had some red worm attempts. Seems we've been probed a fair > bit: 16 times on www.spi-inc.org, 22 on non-us.debian.org and 18 > on www.debian.org. Almost all attempts were made on July 19. Aren't > we glad we all run Linux? :) otoh i get nearly a dozen ftp and dns connection attempts a week at a minimum, no doubt looking for vulnerable versions of bind and wu-ftpd. also a dozen portmap connection attempts per day, no doubt looking for vulnerable rpc.statd. incompetant `morons with root password' (i won't call them sysadmins) who won't install security updates are really the worse problem. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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