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Re: [LUG] OT: Anonymous FTP access from China

 

On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 20:47 +0100, Julian Hall wrote:
> Simon Waters wrote:
> > Anyone else seeing, or not seeing (if you would) a big increase in 
> > anonymous FTP attempts from China on their FTP servers.
> >
> > Had a lot of boxes trying domain name based users names recently, but 
> > the last few days it is mostly Chinese machines trying anonymous FTP.
> >
Other lists have reported a sudden increase in SSH dictionary-type
attacks from China.


John.

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