How to limit brute force attacks
Filed in archive Securing by Rom Feria on July 30, 2007

performs and also eat up on precious network resources.Take for instance a brute force attack on an open SSH port. Whilst this may be secure, the traffic generated by attempting to break your password several times per minute will eventually take its toll. So how do you limit this? Well, it is a good thing that iptables can be configured to limit the frequency of such attacks. I highly recommend that you do this - will save you some precious bandwidth as well.
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