[CentOS] Defending againts simultanious attacks
Steve Huff
shuff at vecna.org
Thu Feb 15 13:08:38 UTC 2007
On Feb 15, 2007, at 8:02 AM, Mohd Syakir wrote:
> i have one centos 4.3 box, exposed to the internet.
> since several weeks ago, i found numerous attemps to connect through
> SSH, but failed.
>
> they tried with many username, including root.
> it's comes from different IP. some of them are foreign website.
>
> How do i make my centos become smarter in handling this kind of
> attacks.
DenyHosts is very good at cutting down on these attacks:
http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/
There's a denyhosts package in rpmforge.
-steve
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