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SSH Brute Force Detection with APF and BFD

If you have administered a GNU/Linux server with SSH access within the past few years, and have regularly checked your system logs, you are no doubt familiar with SSH brute force attacks.  Automated scripts running from remote, previously broken into servers, are constantly scouring the Internet looking for new SSH servers with insecure users and [...]

Creating a Launcher to Connect to Remote Screen+Irssi Session

We all love SSH+Screen+Irssi for our IRC’ing setup, but, it gets annoying having to open up a Terminal window, manually type in the ssh command to connect to the remove server, logging in with our username and password, and re-launching the screen session all the time.  So, I came up with a more automated way [...]