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to: Ben Ritchey
from: Janis Kracht
date: 2016-10-03 17:29:30
subject: Re: Telnet at Prism

> * An ongoing debate between Janis Kracht and All rages on ...

>> If you've been 'locked out' of the telnet server and you need to use
>> it, let me know.  I'll check your ip wasn't marked as 'bad'.
>> I've been trapping large numbers of nodes here who seem to just
>> log-on/log-off

>I'm getting quite a few myself, probably part of a new Telnet
"attack" which I
>am getting from dozens of different IP addresses weekly that try to login with
> the following sequence:

> === Snip ===
> Unknown
> ENABLE
> SYSTEM
> SHELL
> === Snip ===

> I am blocking some with multiple hits, but I ignore the rest {chuckle}

... sign of the times, that's for sure.  I'm sure if I check some of the
system logs I'll see similarly named attempts.  My favorites: ADMIN, ROOT.. Lol

What losers :)

Take care,
Janis

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