Hello and welcome to the Friday, February 13th, 2006 edition of the Sands Internet Storms

Storm Center's Stormcast. My name is Johannes Ulrich, recording today from Jacksonville, Florida.

And today's episode is brought you by the Sands.edu creative certificate program in cyber security engineering.

In diaries today, we have a diary by one of our undergraduate interns Jonathan Husk, and he wrote about, well, and good old as age warm.

At least that's sort of what it looks like, but there are a couple of interesting

things here. One is the use of IRC as a command control channel. I haven't seen this in a while,

but I just last week sort of saw some news articles about some bots using it, so maybe that's

an up-and-coming thing again, but, but maybe it really never went quite away.

It used to be the most common thing, and well, maybe we should switch our Slack server back to IRC.

I would be a big fan of that, given some of the issues we had with Slack in the past.

Another interesting issue here is one of the passwords

that this particular bot attempts is Raspberry 993311.

And apparently it's only trying two different passwords.

One is just Raspberry, and that makes sense

that used to be a common default password for Raspberry Pies.

But this 993311 password, apparently there are a couple of other bots using that, at least

attempt to use it, but can't really find any record or so that this is for some reason a common

default password. If anybody has any ideas here, please let me know.

Then a quick post script to yesterday's updates from Apple.

Today I noticed connecting to older Linux systems,

in particular Ubuntu 20.04, that I received a warning message

that the server I'm connecting to does not support any quantum-resistant or post-quantum algorithms.

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