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Re: "closed-port" backdoors


From: Andreas Hasenack <andreas () CONECTIVA COM BR>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:16:45 -0300

Em Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:06:34AM -0600, Frank Knobbe escreveu:
If the back door is capable of detecting SYN's, then I would guess it
is running the NIC in promiscuous mode. Instead of opening a port

No, it opens a raw socket, just like one or two of portsentry's modes.


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