full-disclosure - repeated port 21 attempts

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Message-ID: <8076303e0606140910w70e91a2j4a2a589681640434@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed Jun 14 17:10:49 2006
From: andfarm at gmail.com (Andrew Farmer)
Subject: repeated port 21 attempts

On 6/13/06, Ken Dunham <dunhamk@...a.net> wrote:
> >> I'm getting port 21 connection attempts every 5 minutes from about
> > half a dozen of my network users.
>
> Hi,
> Sounds like FTP and SSH attacks that are opportunistically launched by
> Romanian attackers to date...

Given that the connections coming from his own network, I seriously
doubt the FTP connection attempts are the work of "Romanian hackers".
(Unless Mr. Wu's network is in Romania.)