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Bug#1037498: ITP: weakforced -- Daemon for detecting brute force attacks



Quoting Pierre-Elliott Bécue (2023-06-13 15:14:15)
> The goal of 'wforce' is to detect brute forcing of passwords across many
> servers, services and instances. In order to support the real world, brute
> force detection policy can be tailored to deal with "bulk, but legitimate"
> users of your service, as well as botnet-wide slowscans of passwords.
> The aim is to support the largest of installations, providing services to
> hundreds of millions of users.
> 
> weakforced doesn't have any real alternative for now in Debian as far as I can
> see.

A somewhat related tool already in Debian seems to be crowdsec.

Just mentioning in case you or others following along might find it
helpful - sounds like weakforced would be useful in Debian regardless.


 - Jonas

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