On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:59 AM, James B. Byrne <byrn...@harte-lyne.ca> wrote: > We have several web applications deployed under Apache that require > a user id / password authentication. Some of these use htdigest and > others use the application itself. > > Recently we have experienced several brute force attacks against > some of these services which have been dealt with for the nonce by > changes to iptables. However, I am not convinced that these changes > are the answer. > > Therefore I have been looking at http protection and have run across > a few independently provided modules for Apache http security, > mod_security being one of them. > > I would like the opinion of other CentOS sysadmins who already have > faced this same problem, with respect to the solutions available and > those that they choose for themselves.
You can configure fail2ban to help deal with this, along with ssh protection. I'm also heavily in favor of mod_security when it comes to apache protection. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
