Lots of SSH dictionary attacks recently
I thought I was getting a lot of DenyHosts emails recently and the statistics page on the DenyHosts website seems to agree with me!

I wonder what’s caused this sudden surge in attacks
Tags: debian, denyhosts, dictionary attack, ssh
November 19th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Denyhosts! http://www.ossec.net/en/attacking-loganalysis.html