[CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:46 AM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> wrote:
> Over the weekend one of our servers at a remote location was
> hammered by an IP originating in mainland China.  This attack was
> only noteworthy in that it attempted to connect to our pop3 service.

About 6 years ago, the POP3 port on one of our web sites (on a shared
server at OLM) was attacked. OLM discovered this when I couldn't
download my email and filed a trouble ticket. Someone was accessing it
60 times a minute. Whatever OLM did, to prevent it worked.   :-)