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Steve schrieb: > Le 07-05-2008, à 17:34:08 +0800, Abdul Bijur Vallarkodath (abdulbijur) 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-REQUEST with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster
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