Dark reading article on the proper port of SSH daemon.

[Nikolas Lam]

On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 21:31 -0800, Jose R R wrote:
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> I am also looking for insight/recommendations on an utility to stop
> scraping/resource probing like abuses, where an given perpetrator will
> start at the root of the web resources and continue for several
> minutes traversing the whole site(s).

Check out fail2ban - it monitors your logs and modifies your iptables
entries to block likely abusers for a fixed period (all configurable).
I've found it highly affective against bulk automated brute-force
attacks.

Nik