Subj : FidoGazette Vol 10 no 40
To   : MIKE MILLER
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Sat Jul 28 2018 19:13:00

MM>   Hello Daryl!

Hi, Mike...

MM>  It's pretty common for any internet-connected machine to use something lik
MM>this.  SSH ports get hammered by bots looking to brute-force their way into 
MM>system and have for the last 10+ years.

  And, we thought twits in the dial-up days were bad. :P

MM>I have some machines set up as "honeypots" where, if something like this hit
MM>them, the entire cluster blocks that IP address. I've definitely seen an upt
MM>in connections to port 23 lately though. I have no idea why IOT devices insi
MM>on using telnet, as implementing ssh is simple.

  I have implemented PeerBlock on my end, and a lot of these bots have
"no name" with their hostname. One of my users, a fellow Synchronet
Sysop, has that, but I sent him a note to advise him to logon to an
external FTelnet link into the BBS. It's via a proxy server in
California, but he could still logon to the BBS. I'm going to add a
bulletin for such...but we're in a stormy weather pattern right now, so
the BBS is down more than up lately.

Daryl

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