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April 6, 2012 07:05 pm

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


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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