A few weeks ago I installed DenyHosts, a small deamon (can also be run as a cron job) that runs on my server to block IP’s that make brute force SSH login attempts. The script has worked great, blocking over 500 hosts on the first day I used it (including myself a few times…). One… Continue reading Deny Hosts and SSH Login Attempt Behavior
Category: security
Coming to a Windows Vista Near You
Nothing like Microsoft putting new security flaws in Windows while claiming its improving security. I don’t know why Microsoft would use a random number generator with several known and published flaws, not to mention the issue of its poor performance to other generators available. Perhaps its a standards issue, but a bad idea even if… Continue reading Coming to a Windows Vista Near You