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Security Incidents: Re: port 119

Re: port 119

From: Vince Vielhaber <vev_at_MICHVHF.COM>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:43:51 -0500

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Thomas Molina wrote:

> The interesting thing to me is the change in pattern I've seen. Port
> scans for port 1080 at my location are quite common. I've got logs back
> 90 days; Through the end of December I only see one scan for port
> 119. I've seen three separate incidents since the 1st of January.

I recently had a number of scans on port 119, it turned out to be a
customer's newsreader being pointed at the wrong host (www. instead
of news.). Not sure what newsreader he was using though - just that
he was running NT at the time.

Vince.

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