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Re: What to do about SSH brute force attempts?



On Thursday 21 August 2008 16:57:27 Max Zimmermann wrote:

> The problem with reporting the IPs is, that it can become a very big
> task, as the number of IPs denyhosts blocks increases.

You can always write a script that will send an email after every SSH 
bruteforce attack to a mail address from whois database. That way you don't 
have to do it manually, and still you can do some good deed if someone has a 
server that's broken into, and is not (yet) aware of that.


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