OpenSSH vulnerability?

[Bill McGonigle]

On 07/09/2009 02:38 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.

Commodity vendors who shut off service at the first sign of rumor will
find they have two types of customers - those who think the paranoid
stance is most prudent, and those who are currently adding their new
hoster to their DNS records.

That's probably a good kind of market segregation.

-Bill

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