[Freeswitch-users] Brute-force attack

[jay binks]

Strong passwords are a great start, but fail2ban does a little more than
this.

you could move off port 5060 to something un-conventional, meaning your
less likely to get scanned / brute forced.

Jay

On 14 June 2012 12:27, ocset <ocset at the800group.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have deployed Freeswiitch on windows 7 and since there is no fail2ban
> on windows, I was wondering what the real risk is with opening it up to
> the internet. If I was to ensure that all users and passwords were
> extremely difficult to guess (passwords like "2$53E_d7?^2!3s$"), what
> are the risks that I am exposing myself to? Is there a type of DoS for
> voip where hackers can just flood my system with requests simply to be
> malicious?
>
> There are VB windows scripts available that emulate what fail2ban does
> on Linux but I was just wondering whether I really need to implement
> this level of security if I can control the password complexity in
> Freeswitch.
>
> Thanks
> O
>
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-- 
Sincerely

Jay
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