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Detecting Brute-Force and Dictionary attacks Oct 18 2006 10:01AM
Shashi Kanth Boddula (shashi boddula oracle com) (7 replies)
Re: Detecting Brute-Force and Dictionary attacks Oct 26 2006 01:42PM
shashi (shashi boddula oracle com) (1 replies)
Re: Detecting Brute-Force and Dictionary attacks Oct 30 2006 02:22AM
Jason Nicholls (jason mindsocket com au)
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 07:12:17PM +0530, shashi wrote:
> Hi All ,
>
> Several people replied with their suggestions and solutions on "detect brute-force and dictionary attacks in Linux". I am
> very thank full to all who given solution to my problem, particularly pbrunk (at) uga (dot) edu [email concealed],John Forristel,rowlando,Rob,Hans,
> zmnkh (at) chollian (dot) net [email concealed],Nic Stevens,Venkata Achanta,Nick,denis,Joe Vieira,alec,Manuel Arostegui,Cor and Greg Metcalfe .
>
> Basically, looks like, there are three ways i can solve this issue , (1) by modifying existing system files , (2) integrate a
> external module to your system either at a kernel level or at a PAM level , (3) put a external script
>
> The solutions that i got from various sources are DenyHosts, System Watcher (Swatch), prevent, ossec, secwatch,Fail2Ban,
> pam_abl, snort (i have big doubt on snort whether it can deliver this one at HIDS level) and login_sentry .

And one more from me =) Previously posted to the list. It's a script
based approach monitoring log files (ssh and apache modules included) and
iptables to ban IPs. It also supports managing the ban list across multiple
hosts.

http://jason.mindsocket.com.au/pages/linux/ipb-monitor/

Regards,

Jason Nicholls
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Re: Detecting Brute-Force and Dictionary attacks Oct 22 2006 06:36PM
Rob Creely (programmingart gmail com)
Re: Detecting Brute-Force and Dictionary attacks Oct 20 2006 05:25PM
Greg Metcalfe (metcalfegreg qwest net)
Re: Detecting Brute-Force and Dictionary attacks Oct 20 2006 04:33PM
rowland onobrauche (rowland onobrauche legendplc com)
Re: Detecting Brute-Force and Dictionary attacks Oct 19 2006 05:42PM
Cor Gest (cor clsnet nl) (1 replies)
Re: Detecting Brute-Force and Dictionary attacks Oct 20 2006 08:21PM
Hans Wolters (php xs4all nl)
Re: Detecting Brute-Force and Dictionary attacks Oct 19 2006 03:12PM
Alec Muffett (Alec Muffett uk sun com)
RE: Detecting Brute-Force and Dictionary attacks Oct 19 2006 02:43PM
John Forristel (SunGard-Chico) (John Forristel sungardbi-tech com)


 

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