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More Tasty Tips for DenyHosts

After living with DenyHosts for some time, I have made some additional configuration changes that are quite helpful. Whitelist known good IPsI found after not very long that my home IP address had been added to my webserver’s hosts.deny file … Continue reading

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DenyHosts: Watches your SSH log for you

While I knew that brute-force attacks on SSH servers are very common, I had not taken the time to look at the connection attempt logs on my home servers until recently. To do that on Ubuntu run: 1sudo tail -n … Continue reading

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