Subj : Hits And Hack Attempts
To : Daryl Stout
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue Jul 07 2015 11:17 am
06 Jul 15 11:07, you wrote to MARC LEWIS:
DS> Marc,
ML>> This system takes many hundreds of "hits" per day on port 23. Bombing
ML>> runs
DS> My BBS takes the same thing...and if a deal is in the cached IP file,
DS> the connection is refused.
ML>> It's amazing to look at the log file.
DS> I guess they have nothing better to do.
the thing is that no one is sitting there doing this manually... it is all
being done by bots and occasionally the operator will look over the results...
they don't care about the remote system... only if they can get in and be able
to use it as another bot in their herd... possibly scrounge some personal info
off of it...
)\/(ark
... Unless you happen to own the restaurant...there ain't no "free lunch."
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