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Responding to a Brute Force SSH Attack
Jamie Riden

It was a bad start to a Monday morning: I arrived at work to find the intrusion detection system so bogged down in alerts that it was barely responsive.

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Responding to a Brute Force SSH Attack 2009-05-11
Anonymous
Port knocking, non standard ports and black listing are failed strategies:

Port knocking just adds another password to guess, it gives some stealth but makes things much more complicated for your uses.

Using a non standard port doesn't change much. First attack is nmap and then you'll get the ...

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