network/sshguard: Added (SSH brute-force attack protection).

Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>

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+SSHGuard protects hosts from brute-force attacks against SSH and other services.
+It has been written entirely in C and has no external dependencies and no
+configuration file. SSHGuard aggregates system logs and blocks repeat offenders.
+It can read log messages from standard input (suitable for piping from syslog)
+or monitor one or more log files. Log messages are parsed, line-by-line, for
+recognized patterns. If an attack, such as several login failures within a few
+seconds, is detected, the offending IP is blocked. Offenders are unblocked after
+a set interval, but can be semi-permanently banned using the blacklist option.
+
+IMPORTANT:
+You will need to properly set up "sshguard" chain in iptables. For further
+information PLEASE CONSULT MAN PAGE installed together with this package.
+The information available on the website tends to be outdated, (it is well
+worth reading anyway).