Re: 27,538 Sign-on attempts not valid

[michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

A cracker program perhaps?

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 09:42:15 -0600, "Burns, Bryan"
<burnsbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> This morning user profile ELOYV showed a status of disabled and 27,538
> invalid sign-on attempts.  I changed the password for the profile
> yesterday
> at 14:36:24 and QSYSWRK disabled the profile at 14:40:09.
> 
> QAUDJRNE shows PW entries every two seconds from 14:40:00 yesterday to
> 7:10:17 this morning.  I enabled the profile at 07:19 this morning and
> went
> over to the work station, a production floor PC.  The work station runs
> W2000 and CAE V4R5.  There was a window on the workstation indicating
> ELOYV
> was disabled.  I entered the correct password and signed on.
> 
> I originally thought there must have been a macro running but now I think
> it's a software bug.  Any thoughts on what caused all these sign-on
> attempts?  
>   
> Bryan Burns
> System Operator
> ECHO Incorporated
> Lake Zurich, Illinois
> 847-540-8400 ext. 493
> 
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