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Re: Cisco vulnerability scanning increase


From: Joshua Hamor <jhamor () cnemedia mi8 com>
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:38:14 -0700

morriswurm () yahoo com wrote:

We recently picked up a spike in TCP 80 scanning against one of our netblocks.
Looking at the payload, it appears to be a Cisco vulnerability scanner.

/level/16/exec/-///pwd

Numerous random source IP's across various netblocks, makes it appear to be bot related potentially. Anyone else seeing 
this type of activity?

Absolutely. I was wondering what it was myself. Thanks for the clue. My error log is filled with that and the awstats scanning.


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