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Security for your Linux SSH using iptables

November 9, 2011 · LinuxSSHSecurityiptables

A few months ago I one of the servers I was looking after got compromised. Basically some script kiddie with too much CPU power on his (her) hands succeeded in a brute-force attack logging into the ssh server. Of course now I'm using much longer, harder to crack passwords... Bu