On Jun 5, 4:37*pm, Doug McIntyre <mer...@geeks.org> wrote:
> Lito Lipad <bwaw...@gmail.com> writes:
> >Everytime I look at my NAS ftp flog, I see all this Chicom IP's. *How
> >in hell they get into my IP address? *I got 400 recorded attempts to
> >login as Administrator.
>
> The scripts go through and try to log into *every IP address* as
> Administrator and common stupid passwords. Its not you they are after,
> they are just looking for open places they can go in in general.
>
> If they didn't get the ocassional hit that let them in, they wouldn't bother..
>
> But people are lazy/stupid/whatever and put stupid easy passwords up
> on common services listening wide open on the Net.

My NAS running Linux OS as firmware o 'Administrator' is not even a
valid username. It is set up in my router as virtual FTP server
instead of DMZ.