RE: [cobalt-users] Anonymous FTP attempts

["Scott" <35591@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> Report them. 3 hacked servers were found that way last week.
> The first SysAdmin I reported to got a bit defensive at first.
> 2 emails later he discovered 2 things:
>
> 1. His non-production server where the FTP attempts where coming
> from was hacked.
> 2. He needed to update his ProFTPD. :)
>
> Add these IP's to your hosts.deny--all hacking attempts. This is
> what the pattern looks like:

Thank you!  I will start reporting them.  That was an interesting log file.
I also get almost daily attempts from *.dip.t-dialin.net.  In fact log I was
looking at before writing my original post was regarding dialin.net.

Thanks again,

Scott