#Hardwaregrowler alternative pro

IFS='|' # Separate pattern chunks with the pipe character for egrep # Watch the OS X secure log and show growl notifications when important events Let me know if you have any questions though! Not much explanation for this one, because it should be pretty obvious how it works. That’s why I wrote a simple intrusion detection script that issues Growl alerts. But since login attempts to your personal home Mac should be rare, it’s nice to have them brought to your attention. In the case of this kind of distributed attack, though, DenyHosts won’t help much.

#Hardwaregrowler alternative pro

What was even more scary was when I noticed similar log output on my macbook pro at my apartment! One good idea is to use something like DenyHosts to automatically block IPs that have too many failed authorizations in a row. What’s worse is that it’s coming from multiple computers at the same time. And my machine gets peppered with these sorts of attacks constantly. This is a pretty blatant dictionary attack. It had something to do with seeing SSH produce page after page of log output that looked like this: Shortly after subscribing for a linode VPS, I started getting very paranoid about computer security.