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How Fail2Ban Works to Protect Services on a Linux Server — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How Fail2Ban Works to Protect Services on a Linux Server

Fail2ban is a daemon that can be used to monitor the logs of services and ban clients that repeatedly fail authentication checks. It is a great tool to help protect against brute force attacks and malicious users. In this guide, we’ll discuss how fail2ban works and how you can leverage its configuration structure to modify or extend its functionality.

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How To Authenticate Django Apps using django-allauth — step-by-step Python tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Authenticate Django Apps using django-allauth

django-allauth is an integrated set of Django applications dealing with account authentication, registration, management, and third-party (social) account authentication. In this tutorial, you will build a Django application that uses django-allauth to authenticate using a cloud account.

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How To Use Port Knocking to Hide your SSH Daemon from Attackers on Ubuntu — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Port Knocking to Hide your SSH Daemon from Attackers on Ubuntu

Port knocking is a method of protecting your services behind a firewall until connection attempts are made to a specific sequence of ports in a certain amount of time. The firewall rules are then modified to allow access to the service and the user can connect as normal. In this article, we will discuss how to implement port knocking to add an extra layer of protection to your SSH daemon in order to dissuade attackers.

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