[CentOS] Hardening CentOS by removing "hacker" tools

[Ruslan Sivak]

Dennis McLeod wrote:
> They basically detect port 
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>> scans and add a firewall rule to temporarily block that ip.  
>> Does anyone know what tool that is?
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>> Also disabling remote login as root should help.
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>> Russ
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> Fail2ban, is what you are looking for, I think....
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> http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
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> Dennis
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Sweet, actually this looks more like what I wanted, but rackspace said 
wasn't available.  This bans the ips if there are a lot of password 
failures.

There is also another tool which bans ips for port scans.  I think it's 
been discontinued, but perhaps there is another one out there?

Russ