Fail2ban scans log files for various services ( SSH, FTP, SMTP, Apache, etc., ) and bans the IP that makes too many password failures. It also updates the firewall rules to reject these ip addresses. Fail2ban is an intrusion prevention framework written in the Python programming language. Main purpose of Fail2ban is to prevent brute [...]
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