I'm still suffering from hackers hitting our UBB forum. We've managed to keep them out, but they consume cyles from us that cause a SLOWDOWN nearly every day. I've seen 80-140 login attempts per minute!! The majority of these are from China.

I added an htacces file blocking thousands of IP addresses. It seems to work, but now I get hundreds (thousands) of failed attempts to login.

My question is - does anyone have experience with managing the firewall services on Linux? It seems that that would be a better place to block these hack attempts.

Maybe you can couch your response as a "Recommended Suggestion for ALL Linux-Hosted UBB's". Thanks.


--BIll B