apt-get install portsentry
do some quick reading up on it. It keeps people from randomly poking
your box looking for a variability by blocking people, on the fly, that
poke more than a configurable number of ports. With the option of
returning a greeting message :)
It also keeps COX from being able to scan your system as a side benefit.
-Bill
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 13:26 -0700, June Tate wrote:
> > Hey folks,
>
> I've been a bit of a long time lurker on this list, but I've recently
> come up with a bit of a problem. Somebody, somewhere out on the 'net is
> attempting to crack into my home server -- unfortunately, they seem to
> be either using a few hundred zombie boxen on the 'net or spoofing their
> IP addresses because each attack is coming from a completely different IP.
>
> The first time I noticed, I noticed a bunch of "Illegal user" error
> messages in /var/log/auth.log. At first I didn't think much of it, but
> since I've worked on the iptables firewall, I've noticed an almost
> constant stream of incoming packets to random ports on my box, too.
>
> At first I thought he must have just found my box via an IP subnet scan
> or something, but when I recently changed ISPs and IP addresses, he
> followed via my domain name.
>
> My question is this: how can I track down this guy, blacklist, or
> prevent him from breaching my defenses? Also, what should I do about
> reporting him to the authorities? Who do should I contact about this?
>
> I've tried looking up his various IPs in the whois databases to no avail
> - -- they list him as coming from Tokyo, Taiwan, South Africa, San
> Diego, etc.
>
> My server is running Debian Linux, for reference.
>
> - --
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