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Blocking brute force attacks with Fail2ban

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Blocking brute force attacks with Fail2ban

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- Are you worried about someone brute forcing the passwords on your Linux server? We'll show you how to use Fail2Ban to stop them in their tracks. - [Narrator] You are watching ITPro TV. (bright music) - Welcome back, I'm here with Don from more "L Pick Two." Today's episode is all about blocking brute force attacks with Fail2Ban. Can you kind of give us a summary of what we're going to talk about? - Sure, we're going to learn a little bit about what Fail2Ban is because not everybody's used the service before. Then we're going to see how to get it installed on our system and we'll run it, get it monitoring, and maybe we'll even trip an alarm or two and see it in action. - Like you said, first things first, what is Fail2Ban? - All right, so Fail2Ban's a pretty neat little service that you can run on any Linux box. It runs on Red Hat-based systems as well, as well as Debian-based systems, and it does something really interesting. When somebody tries to log in to any service, if they…

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