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Re:A Linux botnet is launching crippling DDoS attacks in exc... by imaginenore on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @08:44AM (#10303464)
Rate limiting on everything should be a default.
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Re:A Linux botnet is launching crippling DDoS attacks in exc... by espadrine on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @12:19PM (#10305016)
Why doesn't Linux do it by default, by the way? It wouldn't hurt desktop Linux either.
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Re:A Linux botnet is launching crippling DDoS attacks in exc... by skarap on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @03:36PM (#10306515)
It does. PAM (which is a central piece of software handling authentication on Linux) makes you wait 1 second after each failed attempt.
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