<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000099"> I do not intend to sit quietly and keep my fingers crossed. SSHD attack, with the souce package hosted in Romainia, was one attack vector - brute force account and password guessing. Fail2ban, portsentry, et al, all do an okay job, but real log checking, analysis, and ensuring proper information assurance practices helps, but.. Alpha might slow things a little, but ... nothing is perfect. thanks for the comment!! bob John Grzesiak wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20080725195318.jrmioc9aio8cgs0w@www.hotiron.net" type="cite"> Just a quick note about being hacked... I have been doing IT since about 1979 and Linux for a long time (since kernel 2.0.x)... I had never had any hint of an attack until FC9... I am wondering if there is something in the code base that is allowing this. At any rate, I am still looking for how my apparent penetration occured. (My SSHD on my gateway machine restarted without an update or coredump/error or other valid reason). My older Fedora and CentOS machines appear unaffected... Just a recommendation to keep your eyes open and don't assume that just because it's an Alpha, that it's impervious... It's not. </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- =============================================== Mary, Patty and Lynn are brats, hmmm I know some brats. </pre> </body> </html>