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2003 Nov 05
5
The Minimum Cost of Setting up an Asterisk Phone System?
...cost/phone = $258.59+ The fantastically low prices of using gnophones on existing systems is only available IF: 1. Your desktops are all running linux 2. Your sound cards are compatible with linux/gnophone (for me, the sound cards/systems seem to be the stumblingblock/hurdle to get past!) Cheap $30 phones are an option, but you will not get: Intercom capability Message waiting capability CallerID type stuff. Gnophones may or may not provide intercom, I haven't gotten that far as to find out. VOIP phones are expensive, but MAY provide intercom,...
2017 Nov 28
0
Failed attempts
...but it isn't pointless. Tarpits are in a similar class; they don't help with security in the absolute sense, but they slow the attacker down, and that might be enough to prevent the attack from continuing.? (that is, put a tarpit on port 22 and run the real ssh elsewhere!)? Any and all stumblingblocks you can put in the attacker's way, whether they're 'real' security or not, are worth at least looking at and evaluating their usefulness.? Port knocking is an extreme form of security through obscurity, in reality, and falls into this class of tools. Likewise fail2ban; all it r...
2017 Nov 27
6
Failed attempts
Pete Biggs wrote: > On Mon, 2017-11-27 at 12:10 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: >> hi All, >> >> I happened to login to one of my servers today and saw 96000 failed >> login attempts. shown below is the address its coming from. I added it to my >> firewall to drop. >> >> Failed password for root from 123.183.209.135 port 14299 ssh2 >> >> FYI -
2017 Nov 28
4
Failed attempts
...be, but it isn't pointless. Tarpits are in a similar class; they don't help with security in the absolute sense, but they slow the attacker down, and that might be enough to prevent the attack from continuing.? (that is, put a tarpit on port 22 and run the real ssh elsewhere!)? Any and all stumblingblocks you can put in the attacker's way, whether they're 'real' security or not, are worth at least looking at and evaluating their usefulness.? Port knocking is an extreme form of security through obscurity, in reality, and falls into this class of tools. Likewise fail2ban; all it reall...