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Current Newswire: Open source means freedom from 'anti-features' GTalX - Google Voice Chat has arrived in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Top 10 Super Bowl tech ads OOXML not suitable for Norwegian government, says study Add Cloud Storage to OpenOffice.org with SMECloud 10 Ways that Enterprises use Linux SECURITY: A sensation of wonder about technological developments HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight SourceForge turns off "blanket blocking" Home, Events, and Ubuntu Linux Today is not responsible for the content of the message below. Peter N. M. Hansteen - Subject: Sensible firewall rules will stop them easily ( May 18, 2008, 11:21:15 ) It always amazes me that brute force attacks are still seen as problematic. With a sensibly configured firewall (preferably one running OpenBSD or other suitably equipped BSD), it's just a matter of simple state tracking options. It's been in my PF tutorial at http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/ pretty much *forever* (go directly to http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html for that topic). It's in the book too, of course ( http://www.nostarch.com/pf.htm) Simple and extremely effective as well as applicable to any service that might be subject to similar abuse. -- That grumpy BSD guy - http://bsdly.blogspot.com/     [ Reply | Reply Quoted | Back to today's headlines | Back to story ]     <<PREV Talkback NEXT>> Using accesskeys for previous/next: Mozilla/Netscape: Ctrl+Alt+P or Ctrl+Alt+N IE: Alt+P or Alt+N, then press RETURN Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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