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Date:      Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:58:45 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Security <security@tasam.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: port 1080 scans
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.981108224558.5111C-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981108150950.14310A-100000@tasam.com>

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On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Security wrote:

> I've noticed our socks5 dumping core quite often. It's stopped now, but
> about a week ago it was acting up.
> 

Port 1080 scans are very often just that - people looking for a
misconfigured Socks server that allows them free access.


> On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> 
> > In our campus network we are increasingly observing port
> > scan attacks from outer sites on port 1080 (socks).
> > 
> > Does anyone know of any recent security hole related to this service
> > on any platform (possibly linux - but I want to be prepared wrt FreeBSD).
> > 
> > -- 
> > Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de

	Sander

	There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future -
	all these are just illusions.




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