Posts Tagged ‘sshguard’

Stopping SSH & FTP brute force attacks with IPFW

Saturday, December 6, 2008 19:48 2 Comments

Brute force attacks are becoming more and more common in todays security landscape; if you receive security cron logs from your FreeBSD server you will know exactly what I mean. These attacks usually use automated software to try thousands of username and password combinations on SSH and FTP, continually aiming to find a weak account [...]

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