Category Archives: security

Installing and setting up bfd

Posted by admin on April 5, 2007 0 comments

BFD (brute force detector) is an excellent package by rfxnetworks that works hand-in-hand with the APF firewall package to automatically detect and put an end to brute force access attempts. BFD works by monitoring for excessive access attempts via ssh. If it does detect attempts, it places the offender’s IP in APF’s deny hosts file. [...]