ufw, or the Uncomplicated Firewall, is a convenient front end for managing iptables on your Ubuntu server. This article provides a brief tutorial on some of the most commonly used commands. ufw is available in Ubuntu from the 8.04 release onward, and the commands here should apply to any current version. Viewing the ufw Status […]
The Fail2ban monitoring utility tracks your server logs and temporarily adjusts your firewall rules to block IP addresses that originate suspicious behavior. Out of the box, though, Fail2ban ignores some annoying activity. For example, in your Apache error logs, you’re seeing a lot of entries like this: These are bots or script kiddies attempting to […]