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RE: [cobalt-users] Portsentry and Hacked?



On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, John Cordeiro wrote:

> >>Hi I was wondering if there is anyone out here on this list that has
> >>portsentry installed on their raq and still got hacked?
> 
> >/me puts his hand up.
> 
> Not if Portsentry was installed properly.

Hmm, not really true, i can pound on your ftp server all day long and
portsentry won't say a thing, it only watches unregistered services, it
couldn't care less about connections to normal services...

If you really want to be complete you need a log analysis tool in
addition, or you aren't going to see the guy that just sits there and
tries passwords all day long on a standard service...

proftpd - SECURITY VIOLATION: root login attempted.

gsh