DShield Data Analysis: Taking a Look at Port 45740 Activity, (Thu, Jun 3rd)

At the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC), handlers frequently analyze data submitted from DShield participants to determine activity trends and potential attacks. A few days ago on May 31st, I observed a small anomaly for %%port:45740%% and decided to monitor it for the next 3 days or so. There was a huge spike in number of sources/day and reports/day recorded on May 31st as shown in Figure 1.

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Quick and dirty Python: nmap, (Mon, May 31st)

Continuing on from the “Quick and dirty Python: masscan” diary, which implemented a simple port scanner in Python using masscan to detect web instances on TCP ports 80 or 443. Masscan is perfectly good as a blunt instrument to quickly find open TCP ports across large address spaces, but for fine details it is better to use a scanner like nmap that, while much slower, is able to probe the port to get a better idea of what is running.

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