Minimize dictionary attacks

By tompson

For everybody who does not know it: it is possible to show all wordpress blog entries assigned to a specific tag by using the following URL schema: http://wordpress.com/tag/TAGNAME

I did this today for http://wordpress.com/tag/vdr/ and found out that there are not many blogs about the VDR. I found hurikhans’s blog with another interesting entry: He was frustrated about the amount of dictionary attacks that were run against his server every day and he found a nice tool: DenyHosts

This tool automatically detects dictionary attacks and adds hosts into /etc/hosts.deny – additionally it synchronizes the list of hosts with thousends of other users over a central server. I think I will install it on my server asap!

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