Idea for a security program

[John Abreau]

On 12/29/06, Ted Roche <tedroche at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> You may want to take a look at BFD (Brute Force Detection) [1]. I know
> of an admin who was very happy with it. My understanding is that it
> parses logs files and adds entries to its own iptables list, using APF
> (Advanced Policy Firewall) [2]. I haven't been able to get it set up
> with vsftpd, as it didn't come with a recipe for it, and my Perl
> skills are meager.
>
> [1] http://www.rfxnetworks.com/bfd.php
> [2] http://www.rfxnetworks.com/apf.php

I went to take a look at these, and found that the rfxnetworks.com
domain just expired on Dec 28. A check of the Internet Archive
reveals that the same site is at

    http://www.r-fx.ca/

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