[CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 & 'string-less' IP tables

Bowie Bailey Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com
Wed Aug 31 15:51:17 UTC 2011


On 8/31/2011 11:32 AM, Always Learning wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 11:29 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>
>> I assume this is an Apache server.  Have you looked at mod_security
>> (http://www.modsecurity.org/)?  It is available from the epel
>> repository.  There is a bit of a learning curve to get it running, but
>> it protects against a ton of hacking attempts.
> Thank you very much for that helpful suggestion. I'll look now.

Just keep a close eye on it at first.  The current version tends to be
*very* aggressive.  I had to modify or disable several rules to get it
to play nice with my websites.

-- 
Bowie



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