[CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

What you can try doing is putting some services on a non standered port
(like SSH on port 4583) This will stop most (not all) attacks coming in at
port 22.

James

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:21 PM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>wrote:

> On: Thu, 14 May 2009 13:00:09 -0700, Scott Silva
> <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> >
> > http://packages.sw.be/fail2ban/
> >
>
> Thank you, got it.
>
> In the meantime I revised my existing iptables rules to throttle
> connections to ssh, pop3, imap and ftp (which service is not running
> in any case).
>
> Thanks for all the help from everybody.
>
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