OpenSSH vulnerability?

Neil Joseph Schelly neil at jenandneil.com
Thu Jul 9 15:01:49 EDT 2009


On Thursday 09 July 2009 02:38:18 pm Ben Scott wrote:
>   Someone perpetrated a successful DDoS attack against OpenSSH
> servers.  Of course, the attack vector was human fears, and the
> technique social engineering.  It's hard to patch OpenSSH against
> that.

I'm not sure how widespread it is, but I know that ANHosting (MidPhase) is 
blocking it entirely.  And they've got no ETA for when they'll put it back so 
far.  I guess they're waiting for details and patches about the exploit to be 
released... ugh.
-N


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