Re: targetted SSH bruteforce attacks

[yersinia <yersinia.spiros () gmail com>]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Samuel Martín Moro <faust64 () gmail com>wrote:

> I also don't want to change my ssh port, nor restrict incoming IPs, ... and
> I use keys only to log in without entering password.
> So you're not alone.
> I had my IP changed several times, my servers are only hosting personal
> data.
> But I'm still seeing bruteforce attemps in my logs.
>
> Here's something I use on my servers.
> In cron, every 5-10 minutes, that should do it.
> Of course, if you're running *BSD, pf is way more interesting to do that.
>
> Perhaps could be better to use something standard as fail2ban

http://www.ducea.com/2006/07/03/using-fail2ban-to-block-brute-force-attacks/?

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