Re: Odd scan

[Russell Fulton <r.fulton () auckland ac nz>]

On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 05:04, Tadas Miniotas wrote:

> What seems odd to me is quite unusual set of ports for a scan. Quite a 
> few vulnerabilities have been discovered in SNMP (port 161), an 
> ingreslock service (port 1524) is reported to be used as an backdoor 
> for several exploits against RPC services, finger is a rarely used 
> service these days. So far, so good, but I fail to see what these three 
> ports have in common. 

I'd say nothing, except that all mark a system as potentially
vulnerable.

Russell.

Russell Fulton, Computer and Network Security Officer,
The University of Auckland, New Zealand


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