What’s Travelling on the Wire (part 2)

Besides the “normal” attacks we’ve seen, the longest ones appear to be FTP dictionary-based attacks. These can take up to several minutes or more, as in some cases we’ve seen attacks with 10,000+ passwords.

Aside from the usual passwords (mostly common names/words) we’ve seen birthdates, comic books/movie characters (anyone fancy Batman, Spiderman or Shrek ? :D ), and even Internet browser names as passwords. As a concern for some admins, some of the commonly used passwords like “q1w2e3r4” were in the lists.

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