Michel van Deventer wrote: >>> >>>> 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 :) So, where's most of your hits from? The most I see is China, followed by Brazil, then Korea (not sure which), then, a lot lower, Russia, Italy, and various others. mark