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Re: [cobalt-users] Under attack



On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Chris Mason wrote:

> Portsentry sent me this message today, do you think it was a real attack? I
> email it to the ISP asking them to investigate..

> modemcable078.112-200-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca/24.200.112.78 to TCP port: 1080

http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html

Port 1080 is a common firewall proxy port, someone is looking for
firewalls with holes in them, so yes, in a sense, it probably
is...(a probe anyhow)

gsh