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  • Using sshdfilter to secure an SSH server

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    Since moving my OpenSSH server down to its standard port number I have been hit daily by service scanning software and brute force password attacks. Gerry pointed out that sshdfilter can help. sshdfilter blocks the frequent brute force attacks on ssh daemons, it does this by directly reading the sshd logging output and generating iptables…

  • Instant Password Recovery Tool

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    I made this back in April 2004, it only took a couple of hours to write and build the database. Basically, I took a wordlist of 535,683 words and hashed them in MD5, SHA1 & LANMAN. The results are stored in a simple MySQL table, indexes on that table make lookups REALLY fast and thats…