!SPAM! [Full-Disclosure] Automated ssh scanning

[Richard Verwayen]

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 11:47, Yaakov Yehudi wrote:
> In spite of many reports to the contrary, Linux is _not_ secure by default.
> Did you harden it?  There is a lot of documentation on the web as to how to
> go about it.
> 
> YY 
Hello Yaakov,

This system was a pure debian woody none-production one with all
services disabled - just ssh was left open in order to see for what
purpose the scan was! Yes, there was a guest account with a weak
passwort (guest) on it! 
And yes, they logged in and became root in no time. But I thought the
kernel compiled from the latest debian woody kernel-source could be
considered to be save. But I was wrong! So I posted the tools used by
the attackers to this list and also to the debian security team.

Richard