[UNIX GEEK - no, really, very] - Victimizing brute force attack autoblocks...

A server I help maintain gets regular SSH brute force login attacks, sometimes thousands an hour. Today I went around and looked at ways to automatically block these attacks. Many scripts, in shellscript and perl, some semi-built-in routines.

( Component pieces in blocking brute force ssh login attacks )

( Approaches to dynamic brute force blocking )

( People working on security should probably think about security )