Simmons Consulting, the Website of Toby Simmons

Zoiks! Hack attack!!

17
Sep

I haven’t felt so violated in a long time. Turns out there have been dictionary attacks running against us for over a week. A dictionary attack is basically where someone automates attempted logins to your system using common usernames and passwords. We have had over 4,200 login attempts from assorted computers located in Germany; Japan; Seoul, South Korea; Beaver Creek, OH; Amsterdam; England; and Australia. Either that or we recently hired folks named sasaki, kanna, tasuka, sasaki, yoshi, root, or various other generic names who cannot remember their passwords. Fortunately, nobody got in, but it’s probably only a matter of time. Sheesh, some people suck.

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