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Old 22nd May 2009
Mantazz Mantazz is offline
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
An analogy: a thief wanders through the neighborhood, trying every front door on every house, hoping that one of the doors will be unlocked. No special tools or skills are required.
Though FWIW, I would say that the distributed hacks that I and so many others have been subjected to are more like a small gang of thieves working together house-by-house, each thief trying one entry (say door, window, garage, etc) multiple times before moving to the next house.

I suspect others have reported similar things to this before, but my logs looked like this not too long ago:
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Apr 12 18:30:05 nfsbox sshd[79901]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user amora from server.eshops.lt
Apr 12 18:31:09 nfsbox sshd[79904]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user amora from a1-grsph1-006.tosa.pl
Apr 12 18:33:13 nfsbox sshd[79922]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user amorina from 195.66.185.185
Apr 12 18:34:14 nfsbox sshd[79925]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user amorina from s112.silver.fastwebserver.de
Apr 12 18:35:30 nfsbox sshd[79931]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user amorina from 221.130.177.154
Apr 12 18:36:18 nfsbox sshd[79934]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user amorina from 85.17.184.11
Apr 12 18:37:25 nfsbox sshd[79937]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user amorina from 190.5.228.134
Apr 12 18:38:32 nfsbox sshd[79940]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user amory from berryx.homedns.org
Apr 12 18:39:27 nfsbox sshd[79943]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user amory from 208.89.208.193
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