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How to “close” open ports?

A few days ago I started to care a lot about my data security, I end up nmaping myself with: nmap 127.0.0.1 Surprise, surprise, I have lots of active services listen to localhost: $ nmap 127.0.0.1 ...
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Protecting postfix from bruteforce attacks

a few days ago I've set up a VPS, including personal SMTP service using postfix + procmail under Debian / Wheezy. I am already seeing a LOT of hammering onto the SMTP and other ports. Here's an ...