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Re: Re: Concepts: Security and Obscurity


From: "Justin Lintz" <jlintz () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:55:03 -0400

I am jumping in late on this and don't know if this was brought up
already so I apologize in advanced if it has... but what about worms
and that are set to scan networks looking for services on specific
ports?  If you change the default port for a service, that alone could
save your machine from being compromised in a 0-day exploit from a
worm that only checks for the service on the default port.

- Justin Lintz


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