Posts Tagged ‘sshguard’
Stopping SSH & FTP brute force attacks with IPFW
Saturday, December 6, 2008 19:48 2 CommentsBrute 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 [...]