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The "Hail Mary Cloud" Is Growing
badger.foo writes "The Australian rickrolling of jailbroken iPhones only goes to prove that bad passwords are bad for you, Peter Hansteen points out, as he reports on the further exploits of the password-guessing Hail Mary Cloud (which we've discussed in the past). The article contains log data that could indicate that the cloud of distributed, password-guessing hosts is growing. 'With 1767 hosts in the current sample it is likely that we have a cloud of at least several thousand, and most likely no single guessing host in the cloud ever gets around to contacting every host in the target list. The busier your SSH deamon is with normal traffic, the harder it will be to detect the footprint of Hail Mary activity, and likely a lot of this goes undetected.'"
Just was has to happen to make people realize (or make lawmakers force them to) that securing your boxes is a necessity?
What? Tell me, please, what has to happen? How much damage is needed? We'll see it happen, no matter how much damage is required. The question is only whether it's too late or whether we can repair it.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.