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Re: Scanning with reverse connections?



In article <[🔎] 3EDF9A06.10705@travellingkiwi.com> 
hamish@travellingkiwi.com writes:
>I've noticed some strange traffic on our firewalls recently. Someone (Or 
>multiple someones) are attempting to send tcp packets inbound to our 
>network FROM well known ports (e.g. port 80) 

Some firewalls that don't do proper connection tracking can be
bypassed that way.  With a properly configured iptables firewall this
shouldn't be a problem.  ipchains based firewalls are more likely to
fall victom to this trick.

Treat it the same as any other attempt to break into your systems.

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Blars Blarson			blarson@blars.org
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