From: James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> > We have several web applications deployed under Apache that require > a user id / password authentication. Some of these use htdigest and > others use the application itself. > > Recently we have experienced several brute force attacks against > some of these services which have been dealt with for the nonce by > changes to iptables. However, I am not convinced that these changes > are the answer. > > Therefore I have been looking at http protection and have run across > a few independently provided modules for Apache http security, > mod_security being one of them. > > I would like the opinion of other CentOS sysadmins who already have > faced this same problem, with respect to the solutions available and > those that they choose for themselves. I did not test it but maybe check: http://www.zdziarski.com/projects/mod_evasive/ JD