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New Security Features

Previously we had been using the over-popular Fail2Ban to scan our logs as a temporary fix for the issue. While the anti-DDOS software written by CLDMV takes care of a ton of bans every day. The hacking attempts are still being attempted by some what smarter hackers.

Today we rolled out our first module for log scanning. With SSH probably being the #1 threat to servers out there that is what we chose to target for our scanner. Took several days but the results are amazing. While I can’t divulge the inner workings of the module. Let me just show you the first ban email we got after running it for the first time:

Keep in mind these numbers and bans are simply based upon the past 24 hours of logs.

Update:

This guy takes the cake for CLDMV’s Anti-DDOS software catching a potential intrusion. Just received this email:

Also the log processing module for SMTP hackers is in place as well now. Here’s the first email for the past 24 hours of attempts: