Library items tagged: port scanning

Reporting port or address range scanning

Anonymous
Monday, February 13, 2012 - 19:46
CSIRT
address range scanning
incident response
port scanning
scanning
security
What is scanning? See also Port and address scanning. Address range scanning The most common abuse is from a worm (or virus, bot etc) trying to infect other computers by exploiting a single vulnerability on the same port at a great number of addresses. Port scanning You may be reporting packets or connections to a large number of UDP or TCP ports at just one address (or a very small number of addresses).
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Port and address scanning

Anonymous
Monday, February 13, 2012 - 19:44
CSIRT
address scanning
advice
incident response
port scanning
security
Information for a Janet organization on scanning activity that may affect their network. Within an organization’s own network scanning activity may be a legitimate form of audit or of information gathering; but it is almost never acceptable otherwise without the express permission of the managers of the target network.
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