OpenSSH vulnerability?

[Dan Jenkins]

Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
> 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.
>   
HostGator has disabled OpenSSH support for now. No ETA for restoration 
either.