Just a wee little note about uncrackable Linux. "Staminus.net" is a
server farm in the Fullerton Ca area. They proudly advertise Fedora,
AMD, MySQL, and other trademarks at the bottom of their page.
It seems they either have a client who is interested in cracking other
machines or one of their machines, a Fedora machine one rashly presumes,
has been compromised and used to launch attacks. The gonif tried to log
into my machine via ssh 64 times. He managed one password failure and
63 firewall rejects within 3 seconds. I sent them a note that 72.8.134.103
appears to be a bad boy.
My take away from this is that absolutely nothing except a totally
disconnected machine in an impenetrable safe is uncrackable, even Fedora
machines. Some form of "AV" tool is called for as well as routine checks
with the various system check utilities. Even that won't prevent 100% of
all attempts from succeeding. But it will help.
This paranoia attack has been brought to you by an interesting confluence
of attack and website advertising. Now I return you to your regularly
scheduled message format attacks on each other.
{^_-} <- for the dense ones, that is a wink.
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