RE: Proxy Scans to dial up hosts...

["Ascent - Compton, Richard" <RCompton () ascent-corp com>]

Hi,
There's an article in the newest 2600 mag describing how to do an anonymous
port scan using numerous public proxy servers.  Thus avoiding detection by
an IDS (guess it didn't work too well).  I bet that this is where the
traffic is coming from.

-Rich


-----Original Message-----
From: Grimes, Shawn (NIA/IRP) [mailto:GrimesSh () grc nia nih gov] 
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 9:14 AM
To: incidents () securityfocus com
Subject: Proxy Scans to dail up hosts...

I notice in my snort logs that I have a box:
193.109.122.5 (proxyscan.undernet.org)

That is connecting to some of our dial-up hosts and performing FYN scans on
1080 & 8080 (proxies).  

Has anyone else seen similar activity?

Thank You,
Shawn Grimes
Computer Specialist
NCTS - Gerontology Research Center
410-558-8007
grimessh () grc nia nih gov 

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