Steve schrieb:
Le 07-05-2008, à 17:34:08 +0800, Abdul Bijur Vallarkodath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) a
écrit :
just my two pence.
and my two centimes.
* Change the ports of most ports like ssh, ftp, smtp, imap etc. from the
default ones to some other ones.
>From my poor understanding of security related issues, I guess this is
totally useless since any (good) port scanner will defeat this without
any problem. Remember, security by obscurity is a bad idea.
Used solely you are right, but used in addition to usual other securing
mechanisms it can help against zero-day attacks, which only shoot
exploits to well-known ports.
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