Botnet Busted
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Forenoon watch, 3 bells (9:48 am)

Remember my post about a botnet attack the other day?

Well, the next day I ran across this news article. To briefly quote:

Over the weekend, a number of network administrators issued warnings over an order-of-magnitude increase in the number of attempts to guess the username and password of systems running secure shell (SSH), the encrypted access method that replaced the common telnet service.

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Woopra!
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Forenoon watch, 3 bells (9:37 am)

My Woopra account just got approved. It took over two weeks, but they are still in beta. It looks really cool, though! Unfortunately, their servers are down and I can't connect the admin application right now :(

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