Hackers looking forward to a merry Christmas
Source: Silicon.com
L33tdawg: I can certainly attest to the increased scanning for SSH holes... HITB itself has been getting a couple of probes every other hour. I expect this to increase as we count down to December 25th and perhaps even Jan 1st.
The US-based Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert) has advised system administrators to check any holes in Unix systems running Secure Shell (SSH) are plugged before Christmas because of an expected increase in hacker activity.
Cert said although vulnerabilities in several implementations of the SSH protocol have been discovered before and patches issued, the team believes many system administrators might have overlooked some of the vulnerabilities.
A statement from Cert said: "We are seeing a high amount of scanning for SSH daemons (programs which handle requests), and we are receiving reports of exploitation."
