Security News

Group Behind SSH Brute Force Attacks Slowed Down (Threatpost)
2015-04-09 17:42

A criminal group whose actions have at times been responsible for one-third of the Internet’s SSH traffic—most of it in the form of SSH brute force attacks—has been cut off from a portion of the Internet.

Over 250,000 home routers sport same SSH keys, warns researcher (Help Net Security)
2015-02-20 15:50

With a simple search, John Matherly, the creator of Shodan, has discovered with it more than 250,000 routers that share the same SSH key, meaning they also share the same private key. An attacker coul...