DictDefence, My Current Sourceforge Project

About a year ago now, I started putting together a piece of software called DictDefence. It is based on the idea behind the Script Kiddie Defence Script and SSHGuard. SKDS was far too limiting (only worked with Smoothwall) and didn't scale well at all. SSHGuard protects against only dictionary attacks against ssh. I wanted something more flexible and scalable so I decided to put together my own software, DictDefence. I have the main info page on stuffivelearned.org and everything else, including downloads, is on my sourceforge project page.

This is still a work in progress, but the current release works very well in doing exactly what it is supposed to, block the dictionary based attacks against my servers. Note that this only for *nix based systems, so if you are running Winblows, too bad, especially considering that IMO Winblows has no business being used as any kind of server (but that's another story). If anyone is interested in helping out with this project, let me know at administrator at splitstreams dot com.