Subj : Re: FidoNet; Ken Kaplan -
To   : APAM
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Fri Dec 13 2024 10:52 am

> Except they're not looking for BBSes, most of those port scanners are
> looking for vulnerable services. It takes time to scan 65355 ports, so
> it's much quicker to only scan the ones you know the vulnerable services
> you are looking for are running on.

Yes, and most of the scripts are looking for default user names that are
common with IoT devices... "enable," "admin," etc.  Apparently these
default users are also passwordless if the user has not reconfigured them.


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