I've been using DenyHost for awhile now and I love it. I modified it so that it deny's all services from any host that attempts the ssh attack. Amazingly enough that seems to have also cut down on my virus traffic... hmmm could there be a correlation here?
Jon On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 09:26, Kevin Otte wrote: > As this topic has come up quite a bit: > > ----- Forwarded message from Jason Bechtel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:47:31 +0000 > From: Jason Bechtel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: TALUG: Preventing SSH Dictionary Attacks With DenyHosts > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <-------- TALUG Info: http://www.talug.org --------> > > The comments to this Howto are as good as the article... The upshot: > There are lots of ways to do it. Are you using at least one? > > http://www.howtoforge.com/preventing_ssh_dictionary_attacks_with_denyhosts > > _______________________________________________ > talug mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://bridge.uniqsys.com/mailman/listinfo/talug > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > Kevin Otte, N8VNR > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.nivex.net/ > > -=- > > "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." > -- George Santayana > > "It seems no one reads Santayana anymore." > -- Cdr. Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
