Re: Demon redeem themselves ...

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From: Ben Lovejoy
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 00:00

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slavins@hearsay.demon.co.uk.NOJUNK (Simon Slavin) wrote:

>> How real are the risks? Given that a hacker would have no knowledge of our
>> internal IP addresses, nor any of the filenames, folder structures, etc,
>> where would they start?

>Try connecting to all the common ports (http, nntp, pop3, smtp, telnet,
>ftp, etc.) for every machine on your subnet.

Wouldn't they need the subnet addresses? How would they get these?

Sorry to keep pushing on this one, but I really do need to get some kind of
meaningful sense of the risks involved before deciding what precautions
need to be taken.

Ben

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Subject: Re: Demon redeem themselves ...
Date: 1998/01/03
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