[2231] in bugtraq
Re: Livingston bugs...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bret McDanel)
Tue Sep 12 18:45:51 1995
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 21:12:21 GMT
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From: Bret McDanel <bret@real.com>
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> Another solution is to change the telnet port for the PM. Its not a
> permanent solution, but it would stop those would-be crackers that just try
> to telnet to the PM, not knowing the correct port number.
>
That is not a solution..
Portscanning is way to easy, and popular.. everyone has a scanner, everyone
uses a scanner.. Changing the port would just make it so that they would
scan for what is there.. Only delay it by a second or two..
The real solution is to remove all such backdoors.. I dont recall about EVER
reading about this in the documentation on the router.. If this is in there,
what else is there? Is there a back door that would give someone root on the
router?
