Re: TCP port 5000 syn increasing

[Andreas <andreas () conectiva com br>]

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:30:43PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> I'm waiting for the first worm that tunnels over HTTP port 80, as a number
> of protocols already do, to get around firewalls that only pass 25 and 80. ;)

It would have to be "de-tunneled" on the inside to do something useful. Either
the network is already compromised, or it exploits something on that specific
service.


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