BruteBlock

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Analyzed about 19 hours ago. based on code collected about 23 hours ago.

Project Summary

Bruteblock allows system administrators to block various bruteforce attacks on UNIX services. The program analyzes system logs and adds attacker's IP into IPFW table effectively blocking them. Addresses are removed from the table after expiration period

In a Nutshell, BruteBlock...

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has had 77 commits made by 5 contributors
representing 2,634 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with a very well-commented source code
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has a codebase with a long source history
maintained by nobody
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 1 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in July, 2006
ending with its most recent commit almost 15 years ago

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Project Security

Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )

There are no reported vulnerabilities

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