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Check out port knocking, and deep dive into how to set up a truly painful tarpit for attackers
* Check out port knocking on a non-default port
* turn off passwords entirely!  and make sure you have a script you can run from bitpost to temporarily turn it back on to set up new machines
* deep dive into how to set up a truly painful tarpit for attackers

Revision as of 13:37, 30 November 2017

fail2ban watches log files for misbehavior, and creates firewall rules, to stop things like brute force ssh attempts.

It takes a few commands to get going though, and I guess it doesn't run as a normal service?

 🌵 m@bitpost [~]sudo fail2ban-client add mdmjail 
Added jail mdmjail
 🌵 m@bitpost [~] sudo fail2ban-client start mdmjail
Jail started
 🌵 m@bitpost [~] sudo fail2ban-client set mdmjail addlogpath /var/log/messages
Current monitored log file(s):
`- /var/log/messages
 🌵 m@bitpost [~]sudo fail2ban-client status
Status
|- Number of jail:	1
`- Jail list:	mdmjail

Still not working yet...

  • Check out port knocking on a non-default port
  • turn off passwords entirely! and make sure you have a script you can run from bitpost to temporarily turn it back on to set up new machines
  • deep dive into how to set up a truly painful tarpit for attackers