Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 10/22/07 21:21

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> The Natural Philosopher wrote:

>> I accidentally left a machine with an open global telnet up - for about
>> 2 weeks.
>>
>> No one hacked it. Its firewalled correctly now..
>
> So? No one attempted to hack it in two weeks. What does that prove?
> Maybe they weren't worth hacking?

An open, freely available, unsecured, global telnet box - NOT WORTH
HACKING??!!
It's the Holy Grail of botnet zombies.


> Some of the sites I monitor have had over 500 attempts per day to access
> various ports. Telnet wasn't one of them because it's not active. But
> there are many other ports which could be active. I finally had to take
> additional steps to secure the systems.

Hackers don't *try* to connect via telnet because it's not active?
What - are you pre-notifying them?
No, of course not.
You're just making shit up to embiggen yourself.

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