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Re: Re: Concepts: Security and Obscurity
From: "Justin Lintz" <jlintz () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:55:03 -0400
I am jumping in late on this and don't know if this was brought up already so I apologize in advanced if it has... but what about worms and that are set to scan networks looking for services on specific ports? If you change the default port for a service, that alone could save your machine from being compromised in a 0-day exploit from a worm that only checks for the service on the default port. - Justin Lintz
Current thread:
- Re: Concepts: Security and Obscurity, (continued)
- Re: Concepts: Security and Obscurity Jeffrey F. Bloss (Apr 13)
- RE: Concepts: Security and Obscurity Craig Wright (Apr 15)
- Re: Concepts: Security and Obscurity Craig Wright (Apr 13)
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- RE: Concepts: Security and Obscurity Craig Wright (Apr 17)
- Re: Concepts: Security and Obscurity Jeffrey F. Bloss (Apr 13)
- Re: Concepts: Security and Obscurity Craig Wright (Apr 15)
- Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Concepts: Security and Obscurity lordl3ane (Apr 13)
- Re: Concepts: Security and Obscurity jbloss (Apr 13)
- Re: Re: Concepts: Security and Obscurity levinson_k (Apr 15)
- RE: Re: Concepts: Security and Obscurity Craig Wright (Apr 15)
- Re: Re: Concepts: Security and Obscurity Florian Rommel (Apr 16)
- Re: Re: Concepts: Security and Obscurity Justin Lintz (Apr 16)
- Re: Concepts: Security and Obscurity Pranay Kanwar (Apr 17)
- RE: Concepts: Security and Obscurity Craig Wright (Apr 17)
- RE: Re: Concepts: Security and Obscurity Craig Wright (Apr 15)
- Re: Concepts: Security and Obscurity Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Apr 17)
- Re: Concepts: Security and Obscurity Michael Rash (Apr 17)
- RE: Concepts: Security and Obscurity Craig Wright (Apr 17)
- Re: Concepts: Security and Obscurity Michael Rash (Apr 17)