Websites Conducting Port Scans

Schneier on Security 2020-05-27

Summary:

Security researcher Charlie Belmer is reporting that commercial websites such as eBay are conducting port scans of their visitors. Looking at the list of ports they are scanning, they are looking for VNC services being run on the host, which is the same thing that was reported for bank sites. I marked out the ports and what they are known...

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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/05/websites_conduc.html

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Authors:

Bruce Schneier

Date tagged:

05/27/2020, 10:16

Date published:

05/27/2020, 07:45