[CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

[Chris Boyd]

On May 14, 2009, at 9:46 AM, James B. Byrne wrote:

> 2. Moving pass the obvious and unhelpful "everything", what services
> are particularly vulnerable to these types of attacks?  Does a list
> exist anywhere?

If it's reachable over the 'net, it will eventually get pounded.

POP, IMAP, SMTP Auth, FTP, SSH are obvious targets.

Movable Type / Wordpress blogs are popular targets for link spammers.

Cpanel, webmin, phpMyAdmin and similar applications get pounded on  
less often, but you'll still get hit.

--Chris