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How to prevent password bruteforce in web application?

I have php web application (nginx+php-fpm). And someone try to bruteforce password. He have a lot of IPs. Also these bruteforce works like DDOS because each time web application starts and try to process request. And fail2ban will ban ip after…
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CSF not adding IPs to deny file as a cron during high loads

I'm running a cron every minute to thwart brute-force attacks. awk '{print $2}' < ipkill.txt | while read ip; do #query geographical info IP address curl -o country.txt ipinfo.io/$ip #parse the JSON result pull the country …
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Nginx how to use limit_req_zone on auth_basic to protect against brute force attack?

I have an Nginx server that works as an SSL proxy for a service running on a localhost that doesn't support SSL authentication. I would like to use Nginx's limit_req_zone function to protect the Basic_Auth against brute force attacks. There is a…
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Brute force attacks with server's IP

I am running a Debian wheezy server with fail2ban installed, everything works as expected but recently my own server got banned. I added the server's IP in the exception row and it seems to work, but here the question.. Is it possible that someone…
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Logging 403 Rewrites for Brute Force Attacks

As explained in Wordpress Codec, I want to prevent brute force attacks for wp-login.php via RewritetRule. http://codex.wordpress.org/Brute_Force_Attacks#Deny_Access_to_No_Referrer_Requests Rather than Codex's 301 Status Code, I want to Rewrite as…
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Deal with brute force ftp attack

While Checking the /var/log/secure on my centos server have found lot of attempts of failed login by using unknown usernames, from a list of ip from Japan And China How to hide my server from these smart guys or tools ;-) Here is the snippet of log…
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SSH attacks on Freenas

I had my freenas box set up using no-ip to forward ssh requests to my machine so that I could get to it from work, friends house, parents, etc. A couple days ago i noticed a large in crease in attempted logins and figured my box was probably getting…
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Brute force attack on my servers ports burning through bandwidth

Am having some form of brute force attack being done to my server and I have a screenshot of what's happening below. Remote Address 121.14.154.206 is somehow abusing all of my ports and burning through my bandwidth at an incredible rate. Does anyone…
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Ubuntu 10.04LTS Server under attack, random reboots UNTIL I blocked China

What could have been sent to my server to cause it to reboot? Details: I have a for-internal-use LAMP server running Ubuntu 10.04LTS (upgrade is scheduled for that nebulous "when I have time"). It runs several in-house scripts and monitors, and is…
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Do cPHulk Brute Force Protection Settings Effect Hosts?

Question: Do my settings (shown below) prevent visitors from getting to any of the public web sites on my server if their ISP's IP Address has been blocked/black-listed through cPHulk Brute Force Protection? Background Lately, there has been a huge…
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Fedora Core 9 Being Hacked?

I think I have a system compromise, with sudden perl process starting at the background with the same user as apache (daemon). I found today ZMUIE, which was script to do some sort of bruteforce attack. Anyway this is what I have now (any…
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fail2ban iptable rule wont block

So I set up fail2ban on my Debian 7 server, still I've been getting hit a lot and I dont know why is not blocking properly. The regex works, it recognizes the attempts but it seems the iptables rules it insert wont work, this is how it look iptables…
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Brute Force Attacks - What Else Can I Do?

I am running a Windows 2008 Server which is racked in a data center. Over the last week I have noticed a lot of attempts to brute force login to the box via RDP. Here is what I have in place: Win Firewall - I have a rule to only allow specific IP…
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Preventing logon type 2 and 3 attacks on VPS

Sorry if this was asked before, but I've looked at other questions and couldn't find a match. I've been getting a lot of Logon Type 2 and 3 attacks on my Win Server 2008 VPS (from different IPs). I've been wondering what would be the best way to…
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SSHGuard - Configure netfilter/iptables

I have a question about the setting up/modus operandi of SSHGuard. I would like to block ssh brute force attacks that happens about 3 times every second. I am on an Amazon instance, password login is disabled and ssh only works with public/private…
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