Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 10/23/07 07:16

Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> Sanders Kaufman wrote:
>> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
>> news:4I2dnZdK9LwoCIHanZ2dnUVZ_tKinZ2d@comcast.com...
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>
> But telnet is not the only port - in fact, it's one of the least often
> ports hackers try to access. There are much more lucrative ones.
>
Well SMB was wide open too. They missed that as well.

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