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RE: A Report about the Problem with the OS Counter (was: Hackers. ..)



On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Shahar SAVYON wrote:

> The point is that there are logs that show that they tried to break into
> systems....

I don't have all the info so I might be mistaken. However, no breaking
attemt was done, the surveyor probabely sends some packets to just about
any port on a system, trying to deduce by the results the actual OS
running, these packets COULD be interperted by firewalls /
net-security-tools / monitors - as breaking attemps...


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