May 2019

Enhance SSH protection with additional Fail2Ban filter patterns on Debian 8 (Jessie)

botond published March 2019, 05, Thu - 09:23 time
On your Debian 8 (Jesssie) -based server, even if you use Fail2Ban, you may see log entries that are not recognized by Fail0.8.13Ban filters on your system, version 2, so your system is less protected against attacks that cause these entries. In this description, we will solve the attempt to block attempts with random usernames on our SSH server using another filter pattern in Fail2Ban.