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Re: Exploring the UNKNOWN: Scanning the Internet via SNMP!
From: "Adrian P" <unknown.pentester () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:54:36 +0000
Well, such statement is simply derived from my personal experience of doing application-layer UDP scanning. Never ran a proper benchmark to compare speed results to be honest. On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer () suse de> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:02:25AM +0000, Adrian P wrote: > * Exploring the UNKNOWN: Scanning the Internet via SNMP! * > http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/exploring-the-unknown-scanning-the-internet-via-snmp/ > > Hacking is not only about coming up with interesting solutions to > problems, but also about exploring the unknown. It was this drive for > knowledge philosophy that lead to surveying a significant sample of > the Internet which allowed us to make some VERY interesting > observations and get an idea of the current state of _remote SNMP > hacking_. > > * Why SNMP? * > > 2.5 million random IP addresses were surveyed via SNMP. Why SNMP you > might be asking? Well, there are several reasons. First of all SNMP is > a UDP-based protocol which allows us to perform scanning at a much > shorter time than via TCP-based protocols. Another advantage of This is not true. I doubt there is any measurable advantage of UDP vs. TCP scans if you do it right. 2.5 million addresses can be done in a very short coffee break. Sebastian -- ~ ~ perl self.pl ~ $_='print"\$_=\47$_\47;eval"';eval ~ krahmer () suse de - SuSE Security Team ~ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
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- Exploring the UNKNOWN: Scanning the Internet via SNMP! Adrian P (Mar 03)
- Re: Exploring the UNKNOWN: Scanning the Internet via SNMP! Sebastian Krahmer (Mar 04)
- Re: Exploring the UNKNOWN: Scanning the Internet via SNMP! Adrian P (Mar 04)
- Re: Exploring the UNKNOWN: Scanning the Internet via SNMP! Andrew A (Mar 05)
- Re: Exploring the UNKNOWN: Scanning the Internet via SNMP! Dmitry (Mar 05)
- Re: Exploring the UNKNOWN: Scanning the Internet via SNMP! sub (Mar 05)
- Re: Exploring the UNKNOWN: Scanning the Internet via SNMP! Sebastian Krahmer (Mar 05)
- Re: Exploring the UNKNOWN: Scanning the Internet via SNMP! Enno Rey (Mar 05)
- Re: Exploring the UNKNOWN: Scanning the Internet via SNMP! sub (Mar 05)
- Re: Exploring the UNKNOWN: Scanning the Internet via SNMP! KJK::Hyperion (Mar 05)
- Re: Exploring the UNKNOWN: Scanning the Internet via SNMP! KJK::Hyperion (Mar 06)
- Re: Exploring the UNKNOWN: Scanning the Internet via SNMP! Static Rez (Mar 06)
- Re: Exploring the UNKNOWN: Scanning the Internet via SNMP! Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 06)
- Re: Exploring the UNKNOWN: Scanning the Internet via SNMP! Sebastian Krahmer (Mar 04)