Researcher Scans All IP Addresses on Earth | Drudge Retort

Friday, March 22, 2013

Researcher Scans All IP Addresses on Earth

A researcher used Telnet port 25 to take over hundreds of thousands of devices on the internet with weak passwords and run code on them to scan others, resulting in a distributed botnet that probed every IP address on the Internet in a matter of hours. He used the scan to produce data maps and a census of the Internet.

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This guy is why I block everything but port 80. Look at the list of devices he infected....

#1 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2013-03-21 09:45 PM | Reply | Flag:

Oh sure I have one pass word that isn't NSA grade secure and this creep finds it.

How on earth did he know it was 12345?

#2 | Posted by Tor at 2013-03-21 10:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

So, no HTTPS for you, rat?

#3 | Posted by Harry_Powell at 2013-03-21 11:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

Harry, I don't even do online banking. I drive to the bank. I had a friend who lost his entire PayPal account one day, and another who got charged a massive sum from an online casino....

So no port 443 for me....

#4 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2013-03-22 12:18 AM | Reply | Flag:

#4 HELLIUMRAT
I bank by car also. I don't trust computers or banks.

#5 | Posted by squinch at 2013-03-22 08:52 AM | Reply | Flag:

I bank by car also. I don't trust computers or banks.

#5 | Posted by squinch

Cars have computers in them too.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2013-03-22 01:46 PM | Reply | Flag:

$ grep telnet /etc/services
telnet 23/tcp
telnet 23/udp

Sorry... telnet is port 23.

#7 | Posted by apparatchik at 2013-03-22 02:02 PM | Reply | Flag:

This is incredibly cool and incredibly reckless. It's the kind of thing that gets you locked up forever.

#8 | Posted by rcade at 2013-03-22 02:10 PM | Reply | Flag:

It's the kind of thing that gets you locked up forever.

#8 | POSTED BY RCADE

Or a job with a foreign government.

#9 | Posted by autonomous at 2013-03-22 04:21 PM | Reply | Flag:

#6 DONNERBOY
I don't use the computer part to bank with.

#10 | Posted by squinch at 2013-03-23 07:47 PM | Reply | Flag:

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