Bsd Now

On this week's show, you'll be getting the full jail treatment. We'll show you how to create and deploy BSD jails, as well as chatting with Poul-Henning Kamp - the guy who actually invented them! There's lots of interesting news items to cover as well, so stay tuned to BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. Headlines FreeBSD turns it up to 11 (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2013-October/052141.html) The -CURRENT branch is now known as 11 10 has been branched to -STABLE 10-BETA1 ISOs are available now Will be the next -RELEASE, probably next year *** Stopping the SSH bruteforce with BSD and pf (http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-hail-mary-cloud-and-lessons-learned.html) The Hail Mary Cloud is an SSH bruteforce botnet that takes a different approach While most botnets pound port 22 rapidly, THMB does it very slowly and passively This makes prevention based on rate limiting more involved and complex Nice long blog post about some potential solutions (http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html)