[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Hobbyist Program Announced.

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/4/19 8:40 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If they can find a server on a never used before IP address that
>> has not had a name assigned in the DNS system in just a few minutes
>> how long would you expect it to take to find all the open ports?
> 
> Depends.  The kids don't run nmap so much anymore, in part because there
> are so many web vulnerabilities that a lot of them just scan port 80 and
> stop there.  But they do run nmap once the find something and then they
> find your obscure open ports.  Does not take long.
> 
>> Does no one remember wanadoo.fr?
> 
> I only remember them as a major spam source.  We blocked port 25 from them
> after they sent us an email saying they could not be responsible for their
> customers' spamming.
> --scott
> 

The University had to block them at the firewall as they
were constantly trying to hack into pretty much every
machine on the campus.  Even with little, if any, success
the traffic coming from them was bordering on DOS.  Complaints
went unanswered.

bill