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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2000 09:41:34 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E4r_Thoren?= <t98pth@student.hk-r.se>
To:        Stephen Hocking <shocking@houston.rr.com>
Cc:        security@freebsd.org, sage-au@sage-au.org.au
Subject:   Re: Script kiddies and their port scans
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0007250924480.14065-100000@orc.rby.hk-r.se>
In-Reply-To: <200007242314.SAA01912@bloop.craftncomp.com>

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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Stephen Hocking wrote:

> Checking the firewall logs I see various attempts to connect to rather un=
usual=20
> ports on my box - does anyone now what the following are?
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> 27374
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> 98 - This comes up as TACNEWS in /etc/services


I have at least 4-5 of these scans for port 98 a week.

At least now I know it=B4s linuxconf they are sniffing for.

/ P=E4r



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> 143 imap2
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> Are the two unknown ones some BackOrifice port or part of the common back=
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> left behind by these twerps?
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> =09Stephen
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>   The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor.
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>     "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could prod=
uce
>      the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we k=
now
>      this is not true."            Robert Wilensky, University of Califor=
nia
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