This has been going on for years. Idiots. To reduce the annoyance, you can use fail2ban or run ssh on a non-standard port. From 2007: http://www.techrepubli

This has been going on for years. Idiots. To reduce the annoyance, you can use fail2ban or run ssh on a non-standard port. From 2007: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/protect-ssh-from-brute-force-password-cracking-attacks/349 http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/protect-ssh-from-b... http://lwn.net/Articles/255651/ http://lwn.net/Articles/255651/