RE: RE: was BabyCam now hacking

["BUTLER, Tony, FM" <tony.butler@xxxxxxx>]

I meant who would specifically target your machine.

I use a broadband router which blocks most of that crap automatically.

Anyone can get a little port scanning proggie, but knowing port 5238 is
open
on your machine & it not responding to any 'standard' protocol messages
like
it was a telnet/ftp/http port, who is going really to bother putting effort
into hacking your system when
a) there are loads of unprotected PC's out there broadcasting netbios
messages and
b) port 5238 is also open on bigcompany.com's site - so much more
interesting than yet-another-cable-modem-user.com's network :-)

A little bit of paranoia never hurt anyone, I just think, realistically,
there's no need to go OTT for most 'normal' people.


Tony

"Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get
you" :-]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee [mailto:lee@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 March 2002 11:06
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] RE: was BabyCam now hacking
>
>
> >>who would bother
> >
> > unfortunately, loads of people, its easier prey than
> corporate sites.
> >
> > I had a number of attacks within a couple of hours of installing
> > ADSL.....
>
> As Daniel said "Loads of people". When I was using the
> Alcatel USB frog and
> ZoneAlarm, there there hundreds of dodgy connections to my
> server every
> day, including attempted NetBIOS connections...
> Now there is no-way anybody 'accidently' tries a NB
> connection, it's script
> kiddies running IP scans...
>
> It rapidly got to the point where I turned the ZA logging off
> and just let
> it silently block the attempts.
>
> All the time and care that you've taken to set up your system
> and the lorry
> loads of software on it can be trashed in minutes by the s'kiddies, so
> let's be carefull out there... :)
>
> Lee.
>
>
>
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