Brutelock

We are pleased to announce the newest version of Brutelock has been released v1.1.0.

Changes in this version include:

• Change to the blocking rules format to make for easier reading.
• Additional service rules added.  Now includes rules for proftp, vsftp, courier, dovecot and postfix.  This is in addition to the existing sshd, pure-ftp and exim rules.
• Now allows you to specify the max number of failures per service.  For example if you want to block after 5 tries with sshd and 15 with courier, you can!

We are very pleased to announce that Brutelock is out of beta and the first production release is now available.

Several new features have been added since the last beta release which include:

• Added flexible, extensible service/log monitoring.  You can now monitor additional logs and services by adding the path to your log file and regex search pattern.
• Now includes support for pure-ftp and exim.
• Support for IP wildcards in the whitelist.
• Moved sync process and log rotation/cleanup processes into the main program to eliminate need for cron job scripts.
• Added logrotate support on systems that run logrotate to manage Brutelock’s logs.

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Brutelock service updates now automatically include ip blocks from the Spamhaus Drop List.  This Drop list contains stolen ‘zombie’ netblocks and netblocks controlled entirely by professional spammers.  By including this in the Brutelock service updates, all Brutelock service subscribers will automatically block anyone from these networks, and thus help stop SPAM and other malicious activity from ever reaching your machines.

A new minor revision of Brutelock has been released - version 1.0.1-beta

This revision includes two new scripts that can be ran via Cron to handle log rotation, and maintenance on the sqlite database.  It also includes a script that will monitor to ensure the local Brutelock daemon is running.

We’re happy to announce the public beta launch of Brutelock and the Brutelock Service.

What is Brutelock you ask?  Brutelock is a system that consists of a local set of programs you run on machines to protect them from brute-force attacks, as well as a central service that tracks and helps stop would-be attackers before they ever reach your machine.

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