Automatic blocking

[David Cary Hart]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:23:33 -0500, Mike Klinke <lsomike at futzin.com>
opined:
> On Wednesday 16 August 2006 05:25, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> 
> >     I looked around on the web and found a few different programs
> > to do this, so I thought I'd ask here for advice: what are people
> > using to automatically block incoming attacks via ssh and ftp? 
> > I'm referring to those script kiddies who simply hit your system
> > over and over and over again in a very short period of time,
> > probing both the ssh as well as the ftp daemons trying to log in.
>  
> 
> Take a look at "snortsam" ( http://www.snortsam.net/ ) .  It works 
> in conjunction with the snort IDS and you can customize rules for 
> your situation. It'll manipulate a number of different firewall 
> applications including iptables.
> 
Snort is very expensive.

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