
13 Jul
2012
13 Jul
'12
2:20 a.m.
Quoting Russell Coker (russell@coker.com.au):
http://etbe.coker.com.au/2012/07/09/postfwd-local-email/
I recently had a SMTP AUTH account compromised.
Connection attempts to an MTA can be made at a rate orders of magnitude faster than can be made to an sshd. As I said, anyone who's run a public sshd and noted automated attempts to login using 'joe' account/password combinations will have noticed that the rate of traffic involved is really slow. Also, I'll note your blog takes as given that guessing the password was the vector for compromise. Could be, or might not be. Anyway, FWIW, net.randoms' SSH password guessing attempts against the 'rick' login on linuxmafia.com have been ongoing for about 19 years, now. No luck yet.