Re: Security newbie?

2007-08-03 Thread Rodney Richison
Art Edwards wrote: I've been running debian @ home and @ work, for years, had no indication of attacks. Over the last few days, my iptables firewall seemed simply to stop. I checked my auth log file to find many, many attempts to break in. My firewall was very simple. I have since added rules

Re: Security newbie?

2007-08-03 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:15:38AM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: Art Edwards wrote: I've been running debian @ home and @ work, for years, had no indication of attacks. Over the last few days, my iptables firewall seemed simply to stop. I checked my auth log file to find many, many attempts

Re: Security newbie?

2007-07-19 Thread Simon Brandmair
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:10:14 +0200 Art Edwards wrote: I've been running debian @ home and @ work, for years, had no indication of attacks. Over the last few days, my iptables firewall seemed simply to stop. I checked my auth log file to find many, many attempts to break in. [...] 3. Are

Security newbie?

2007-07-18 Thread Art Edwards
I've been running debian @ home and @ work, for years, had no indication of attacks. Over the last few days, my iptables firewall seemed simply to stop. I checked my auth log file to find many, many attempts to break in. My firewall was very simple. I have since added rules to drop packets

Re: Security newbie?

2007-07-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:09:21AM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: I've been running debian @ home and @ work, for years, had no indication of attacks. Over the last few days, my iptables firewall seemed simply to stop. I checked my auth log file to find many, many attempts to break in. My

Re: Security newbie?

2007-07-18 Thread Martin Marcher
On 7/18/07, Art Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Are there repositories of offending IP addresses to block? Can/should one contribute to these? denyhosts does that for you also have a look at fail2ban which can drop IPs for a certain amount of time after a certain amount of certain