Full Disclosure: Fwd: Re: Looking at SSH scans passwords (honeypot analysis)

[Michal <michal () ionic co uk>]

On 14/01/2010 22:55, Elliot Fernandes wrote:
> What I can say is that, the person who was trying to access your honeypot was using a wordlist, albeit of bad quality 
> because the wordlist contains a large degree of statistical randomness. For the most of us, passwords consist of 
> dictionary words, so a good wordlist would contain that and permutations of it, not just gibberish. By the way, I've 
> scouraged the internet for wordlists and I've seen entries with ! () #$%^&*( , ! () #$% , ! () #$ , ! () # and the 
> others you've included.
On an American Keyboard ! () #$%^&*( is shift and the numbers 1 to 9, for
English it's !"£$%^&*( but as he said it's just wordlists filled with
that, thinking someone might use it as a password, which I guess is
possible, it's probably better then your husbands name for example, but
still shit

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