Subj : Script kiddie
To   : Mike Powell
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Fri Mar 26 2021 18:03:06

Hello Mike,

Friday March 26 2021 10:17, you wrote to me:

 MP> Sometimes those scripts seem to contain logon info, like they are
 MP> trying to log into a pi or smart appliance that is still using the
 MP> default credentials.  In this case, it looked like they were just
 MP> blasting the port with garbage data.   They were taking my 3 DOS nodes
 MP> down every half hour or so.

That's exactly what was happening.  My VMODEM log shows garbage being sent immediately when it answered ... more than likely it seems to be control characters (ASCII 32 and below) so I agree with you.  They were causing VMODEM to immediately lock up as soon as it answered as the calls were not even being passed to the BBS.

Later,
Sean

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