full-disclosure - Re: targetted SSH bruteforce attacks

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Message-ID: <4C1BB0EB.9000707@baribault.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:46:19 -0400
From: Gary Baribault <gary@...ibault.net>
To: Ashish SHUKLA <wahjava.ml@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: targetted SSH bruteforce attacks

I don't see what I'm going to gain .. host.deny blocks just fine
without risking my firewall.

Gary Baribault
Courriel: gary@...ibault.net
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On 06/18/2010 01:38 PM, Ashish SHUKLA wrote:
> Gary Baribault writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>     Both of these systems are within one /21 and get attacked
>> regularly. I run Denyhosts on them, and update the central server once
>> an hour with attacking IPs, and obviously also download the public
>> hosts.deny list.
>
> How about combining denyhosts with netfilter through its plugin
mechanism ? In
> addition to adding entry to hosts.deny file, you can also play with
netfilter
> and 'recent' extension.
>
> Ashish


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