"One of my predictions about the distributed, slow ssh
bruteforce attempts we started seeing in November of 2008 was that
at the rate they were going at the time, it would be well into the
new year before we would see the end of their alphabetic
progression. As it turns out, they stopped just before year end,
before even reaching the 'T's. The last attempt recorded was this:
"Dec 30 11:09:03 filehut sshd[54981]: error: PAM: authentication
error for illegal user sophia from
static-98-119-110-139.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net
"The full collection of raw data is available here, with a .csv
summarising number of attempts, user names and hosts per day
here."