Stopping SSH Brute Force attacks with PF on FreeBSD

Most people know that port 22 is used for SSH communication and due to this common knowledge, you get people using scripts to test for weak passwords. If you look into your /var/log/auth.log and you see tons of fails/errors from users not on your system or from invalid passwords for root, it means you have people trying to break into your system. Truthfully, anyone that puts a system online with port 22 open will see this happen to them. It’s quite common and not direct attack against you, just scripts looking for IPs with port 22 open.

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pfSense v1.2.3 Available!

pfSense, the open source firewall distribution that is based on FreeBSD has seen a new release. This new version brings with it a number of updates and fixes to security advisories.

This release of pfSense contains an update to the FreeBSD base system from the previous version of FreeBSD to version 7.0 to 7.2. This, in turn, implements a number of security advisory fixes that the FreeBSD team have taken care of between the two releases.

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Building a Router With pfSense (Video)

Do you have extra computers lying around the house? In this episode, Matt shows us how to convert an old computer into a home network router.

Configure a professional firewall using pfSense

The guide will take you through the setup of the pfSense firewall with one WAN interface, one LAN interface and one Opt1-WiFi Interface.

This guide was written for Linksys, Netgear, and D-link users with no firewall or router experience. No experience is needed with FreeBSD or GNU/Linux to install and run pfSense. When you are finished, management of pfSense will be from a web interface just like any of the SOHO firewall/router appliances.

1.2 Release is now available

The pfSense development team is proud to bring you the 1.2 release! This brings the features and bug fixes from more than 16 months of development since the 1.0 release. Already widely tested and deployed throughout the Release Candidate phase, this release provides the finishing touches on releases already proven in a wide range of network environments.

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pfSense 1.2 RC 4 Development Release

pfSense firewall 1.2 is a FreeBSD Based operating system designed to be a secure and easy to setup firewall server appliance. Now on its fourth release candidate, pfSense 1.2 promises a slew of great futures designed to make setting up a firewall easier and faster.

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PfSense: 1.2 Release Candidate 1 released!

1.2-RC1-2 has been released! Here are just a few of the new improvements and features that have made their way into this new version...

pfsense 1.2-BETA-1 released!

1.2-BETA-1 has been released! Here are just a few of the new improvements and features that have made their way into this new version:

* FreeBSD updated to 6.2
* Reworked load balancing pools which allow for round robin or failover
* miniupnpd has proven to work so well that it is now in the base install but deactivated by default (uninstall the miniupnpd package before upgrading to avoid duplicate menu items)
* Much enhanced RRD graphs

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