SSH brute force connection attempts #fail
Collected these over the past few months, reverse chronological order. Seeing different machines attempting to connect hundreds of times a day each is just, wow.
Some might say that a SSH blacklist daemon might help, but it only increases the time taken for a brute force attempt, and is of no use against a botnet trying to brute force the ssh login.
There are plenty of things that can be done to lock down the ssh server, and restricting it to only publickey is by far one of the most effective, counting that the resource (the server) you're protecting is pretty important.
Finexis’ new tactic: Social Engineering
Just got a call from Finexis, trying to get/trick me into going down to talk to their financial consultants. They are now trying to do so by saying that there's been some changes to their(implied: your) policies, and want you do go down for a session with them.
Problem is, I don't have any policies with them 
Well, one more number (6341 5315) in my blacklist.
Do be warned.
For the curious, our conversation went like this:
Her: Hi, may I speak to Ray?
(note that she already has my name, so I continue to talk to her, for now)Me: Yeah, what's up?
Her: I'm calling from Finexis. There's been a change with some of our policies...
Me: Huh? But do I have any plans with Finexis?
(I know I don't)Her: Errr...no.. But we'd like to invite you down to have a talk with one of our financial consultants on this.
Me: (laughs) No thanks