>> >>> Security through obscurity doesn't work. >> >> It certainly helps defeat most potential intruders but not the most >> determined. IPtables does help too. > > We also run fail2ban at work. Very nice, installs (along with shorewall), > and creates a temporary blacklist, blocking an IP that's tried five, I > think, times to break in. All configurable, btw. Here too and from my own systems those 'scriptkiddies' are exposed to the world using http://twitter.com/fail2ban :) Regards, Michel