full-disclosure - Re: Brute force attack

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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:36:32 -0500
From: "T Biehn" <tbiehn@...il.com>
To: "Keith Kilroy" <keith@...uritynow.us>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Brute force attack - need your advice

Read the ART OF DECEPTION and KNOW THAT THE ONLY DEFENSE IS NO DEFENSE AT ALL!
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On Feb 12, 2008 4:24 AM, Keith Kilroy <keith@...uritynow.us> wrote:
> To clarify my last post. I agree with alan.
>
> I mean it will help with the low hanging fruit. and I didn't get that
> deep into how to run his auth. Thanks for adding. also disable remote
> root access su to root if you need that. root=localhost only.
>
> port knocking works very well too.
>
> Thanks again for the add alan
>
>
> On Feb 12, 2008, at 4:17 AM, A.L.M.Buxey@...ro.ac.uk wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >> have pasted and also the advice on keeping the SSH on a different
> >> port.
> >
> > run SSH on a different port?  oka, dumb scanners wont find it, but
> > others will. just dont use password-based SSH and dont let it be wide
> > open to the whole internet (firewall it to the addresses you need -
> > and
> > add in a port-knocker if you do need to open from a different
> > location)
> >
> > alan
> >
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