15 Feb
2007
15 Feb
'07
1:08 p.m.
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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