[development] Fully patched site hacked and cloaked

[Jason A. Nunnelley]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Domenic Santangelo <domenics at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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.

Just wonder why you don't simply block attempts beyond 5 or 10.

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