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RE: [cobalt-security] re: Telnet security
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-security] re: Telnet security
- From: Reinoud van Leeuwen <rvanleeuwen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:06:18 +0200
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
> Using a non-standard listening port has the advantage of not
> falling in standard traps aimed for random victims, assuming they are
> using standard ports. It does not stop a determined attacker. However,
> random script-kiddie type of attacks are probably the main (read: near
100%)
> worry to most subscribers of this list.
You might be safer from the "non 31337" scripts. But the "better" hacking
scripts start with a portscan to discover what ports a box listens to. After
they discover a strange port, they just try some protocols on it and soon
discover that it is ssh...
So yes, it will provide a little extra security, but not really mutch IMHO.