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The Optimum Attack Rate For SSH Bruteforce? Once Every Ten Seconds

Posted by Unknown on from the and-that's-why-you-use-denyhosts dept.

badger.foo writes "Remember the glacially slow Hail Mary Cloud SSH bruteforcers? They're doing speedup tweaks and are preparing a comeback, some preliminary data reported by Peter Hansteen appear to indicate. The optimum rate of connections seems to be 1 per ten seconds, smack in the middle of the 'probably human' interval."

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  1. Re:Passwords are for philistines by Brucelet · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is if I break into your house and brute-force you to hand it over