DenyHosts

You can install denyhosts on most distros to reduce SSH attacks on your servers

CentOS
# yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install denyhosts
# service denyhosts start


Ubuntu
# aptitude install denyhosts



Verify

# ps aux | grep deny
root      1075  0.0  0.9   9756  4596 ?        S    11:46   0:00 
python /usr/sbin/denyhosts --daemon --purge --config=/etc/denyhosts.conf


REFERRERS
SystemSecurity
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