Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge (InformationWeek) [LWN.net]

Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge (InformationWeek)

Posted May 15, 2008 19:39 UTC (Thu) by pcampe (guest, #28223)
In reply to: Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge (InformationWeek) by csamuel
Parent article: Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge (InformationWeek)

>Except that, according to the Metasploit project, on Debian/Ubuntu boxes 
>with broken OpenSSL

That is an implementation problem, limited to Debian and derivated systems. Certificates are
the only way to be sure that your server is not password-guessed.