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Fail2Ban Port 80 to protect sites from DOS Attacks

FAIL2BAN Port 80 is used to protect sites from DOS Attacks. Fail2ban scans log files (e.g. /var/log/apache/error_log) and bans IPs that show the malicious signs -- too many password failures, seeking for exploits, etc. Generally Fail2Ban is then used to update firewall rules to reject the IP addresses for a specified amount of time,...

by Mohit Dayal Gupta
Tag: fail2ban apache
23-Mar-2015