Friday, March 20, 2009

FTP Attack!

It looks like someone (or something) has been trying to access my FTP site. I was hosting from home (even thought there is nothing remotely interesting on it and I just happened to spot lots of messages like this

[...] pure-ftpd: (?@XXX.XX.X.XXX) [ERROR] Too many authentication failures

in my Mac's console.log file. I really should check that log more often. Anyway, they kept failing but it seemed to be a 'brute force' attack so took the safest option for now and just turned my FTP daemon off. Stitch that.

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