[aklug] Re: Security issue

Off topic... sorry.. but ec2 is fertile ground for cheap bots.
Probably cheaper than a botnet pimp.

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Shane Spencer <shane@bogomip.com> wrote:
> You don't even want to know how often I have to fend off EC2 bots for
> SIP/HTTP/SSH.
>
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just ran across something on Slashdot that appears to me to be reason
>> to be concerned.
>>
>> http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/13/2024237/Amazon-EC2-Enables-Cheap-Brute-Force-Attacks
>>
>> That Amazon EC2 server thingie they have going on appears to have GPU
>> cluster arrays available, cheap. Seems some German white hat hack has
>> figured out a way to use one to brute force WPA-PSK wireless security in
>> 6 minutes at about $1.68, so he claims anyway.
>>
>> It seems to me if one of these GPU cluster thingies can be used to crack
>> this, it can be used to crack other things as well. A PGP encrypted hard
>> disk for instance.
>>
>> Maybe someone here can explain why I have no reason for concern.
>>
>> Jim G
>>
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Received on Mon Jan 17 21:21:36 2011