Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-22 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-21-2009 2:31 AM Kai Schaetzl spake the following: Barry Brimer wrote on Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:51:44 -0500 (CDT): Many years ago I used portsentry for this. You can find an article about portsentry at http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1580 and can be downloaded here:

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-21 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Barry Brimer wrote on Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:51:44 -0500 (CDT): Many years ago I used portsentry for this. You can find an article about portsentry at http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1580 and can be downloaded here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80573 Kai -- Kai

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-21 Thread David G . Miller
Bob Hoffman b...@... writes: So I have been reading the ssh attack thread and finally want to ask about something. I doubt there is a program like this, but I would love to have a program that listens at common ports that I do not use at all...and only allow that program to listen to it,

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-21 Thread Jacques B.
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Joseph L. Casalejcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Very carefully... Lol, you missed the point. It's impossible. I was bluntly suggesting the reply was not applicable nor on topic to the op's post. Port scanning and packet sniffing have nothing to do with each

[CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-20 Thread Bob Hoffman
So I have been reading the ssh attack thread and finally want to ask about something. I doubt there is a program like this, but I would love to have a program that listens at common ports that I do not use at all...and only allow that program to listen to it, especially the usual ssh port (using

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-20 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:35:00 -0400 Bob Hoffman wrote: So...does something like this exist? fail2ban -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-20 Thread Joseph L. Casale
In other words, anyone hitting those ports that are not being used at all except by our sniff protector, would allow instant banning. So...does something like this exist? I don't know of a program that specifically listens to defined ports and acts on that, but fail2ban would accomplish the end

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-20 Thread James Matthews
However if you are referring to packet sniffers there is no solid way of blocking them. On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: In other words, anyone hitting those ports that are not being used at all except by our sniff protector, would allow

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-20 Thread Joseph L. Casale
However if you are referring to packet sniffers there is no solid way of blocking them. How exactly would I sniff the packets from say my work computer between someone's home computer and work server? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-20 Thread Jacques B.
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Joseph L. Casalejcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: However if you are referring to packet sniffers there is no solid way of blocking them. How exactly would I sniff the packets from say my work computer between someone's home computer and work server?

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-20 Thread Jacques B.
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Bob Hoffmanb...@bobhoffman.com wrote: So I have been reading the ssh attack thread and finally want to ask about something. I doubt there is a program like this, but I would love to have a program that listens at common ports that I do not use at all...and

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-20 Thread Linux Advocate
That program would then, upon receiving a 'sniff' or 'user' would then add that ip to the deny hosts lists..for either a long or short time. Using this would seem like a win as you can easily grab someone before they can get somewhere one hopes. Also, by opening up a few other ports

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-20 Thread Barry Brimer
I doubt there is a program like this, but I would love to have a program that listens at common ports that I do not use at all...and only allow that program to listen to it, especially the usual ssh port (using a different one for real ssh)... That program would then, upon receiving a