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Block Brute Force Attacks with iptables

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“Since 2005 there has been an immense increase in brute force
SSH attacks and though Linux is pretty secure by default, it does
not stop evil programs from indefinitely trying to login with
different passwords. Without proper protection your server is a
sitting duck waiting for a bot to guess the right combination and
hit the jackpot. But with just 2 commands we can stop that…”


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