Stop Brute Force logins through SSH/POP3/IMAP with BFD

Submitted by Jordan on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 12:07

This nifty little script allows you to monitor log files for instances of brute forcing as well as popular exploits that show up in your server logs files. Anyone that has many servers should check this out.

BFD (Brute Force Detector) Home Page

There is also a nice little write up of how to implement BFD without AFP and some extended rules.

BFD rules for Jag servers

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