On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Domenic Santangelo <<a href="mailto:domenics@gmail.com">domenics@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I'm hearing some complicated attack vectors being tossed around in here (password sniffing, mitm, etc) -- don't forget about a pretty simple one: dictionary attacks. I recently took over a project for a small-medium sized client and upon looking at the secure log noticed 50k+/day dictionary attacks against SSH. I installed fail2ban and now get 5-6 emails daily about brute-force hack attempts.<br>
<br>Just wonder why you don't simply block attempts beyond 5 or 10.<br><br>-- <br><br>Jason A. Nunnelley<br>----------------------------------------<br><a href="http://www.jasonn.com">http://www.jasonn.com</a><br><a href="http://www.tekany.com">http://www.tekany.com</a><br>
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