Comments on: Battoning Down the Hatches. http://www.kevinleah.co.uk/2008/09/battoning-down-the-hatches/ "Power to the People" Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:06:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ches Martin http://www.kevinleah.co.uk/2008/09/battoning-down-the-hatches/comment-page-1/#comment-78 Ches Martin Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:47:20 +0000 http://www.kevinleah.co.uk/2008/09/battoning-down-the-hatches/#comment-78 Just surfing across a bit of an old post here, but I heartily recommend DenyHosts if you or other readers are looking for additional aid in thwarting these SSH dictionary attacks (which are a constant for anyone with an always-on connection these days...): http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ I've used DenyHosts on linux systems in the past and had little trouble getting it running on OS X Leopard by following the documentation and setting up a launchd task. It currently has a blacklist of 200+ IPs, and those auto-expire occasionally :-) Just surfing across a bit of an old post here, but I heartily recommend DenyHosts if you or other readers are looking for additional aid in thwarting these SSH dictionary attacks (which are a constant for anyone with an always-on connection these days…):

http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/

I’ve used DenyHosts on linux systems in the past and had little trouble getting it running on OS X Leopard by following the documentation and setting up a launchd task. It currently has a blacklist of 200+ IPs, and those auto-expire occasionally :-)

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