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From: Philipp Kern <phil@××××××××.de>
To: William Yang <wyang@××××.net>
Cc: Sjan Evardsson <sjan_e@×××××××××××××.edu>, "Brian G. Peterson" <brian@×××××××××.com>, gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] RE: help blocking automated ssh scanning attack script
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 14:53:30
Message-Id: 1100011991.12450.3.camel@localhost.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] RE: help blocking automated ssh scanning attack script by William Yang
1 On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 15:43, William Yang wrote:
2 > There's an awful lot of "intrusion prevention" or "active response IDS"
3 > [and insert your favorite en-vogue terminology] out there in the market,
4 > and people buy it.
5
6 Yes. But the software you mentioned doesn't block your own hosts as a
7 simple shellscript would do. That's what the original poster wanted... a
8 more or less ``simple'' script to parse /var/log/secure and block the
9 IPs using iptables.
10
11 Regards,
12 Philipp Kern
13
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Re: [gentoo-security] RE: help blocking automated ssh scanning attack script William Yang <wyang@××××.net>