Can anyone tell me at this platform that what is the difference between filtered ports and blocked ports? [duplicate]
please help me out, I am confused in this.
Category Archives: ports
Is it safe to expose port 22 on a database VM?
I have seen many answers to this question in different scenarios but I am still unsure of the actual answer.
I have a VM in the cloud (Azure), which will be hosting my production database. Is it safe to have port 22 open for my SSH connect… Continue reading Is it safe to expose port 22 on a database VM?
Find only well-known ports with nmap [closed]
I would like to use nmap to find which services run on the well-known ports of a computer in my local network.
I tried using nmap -p1-1024 192.168.1.1 but this command displays all ports from 1-1024:
PORT STATE SERVICE
1/tcp unkno… Continue reading Find only well-known ports with nmap [closed]
Sudden large amounts of ports and services on my router [closed]
I’ve conducted a scan of my network and I’ve noticed a worrying amount of ports and services now running on my router.
I have a Virgin Media Superhub2. Below are the ports and services that are open. I cannot find information on the inter… Continue reading Sudden large amounts of ports and services on my router [closed]
Is there a possible security advantage to using a non standard port for ssl/https?
There are documented (albeit debated) advantages to using a non standard port for SSH.
I also read in various places about using a non-standard port for https (e.g. 8443). Is there a possible advantage to doing this? Of course, the firew… Continue reading Is there a possible security advantage to using a non standard port for ssl/https?
Nmap scanning with and without proxychains has different behaviour
I’m doing a nmap scan to my own machine to my own machine. First of all I set the port 333 to listen with this command sudo nc -lvnp 333
On the other terminal I run sudo nmap -O -sV -p 0-65535 IP where IP is my local IP. The result I got … Continue reading Nmap scanning with and without proxychains has different behaviour
If I flood a port with bytes how do I know if I have caused buffer overflow
If someone is trying to cause buffer overflow so they flood a open port that is running a C program with bytes how do they know if they have caused buffer overflow.
Continue reading If I flood a port with bytes how do I know if I have caused buffer overflow
Very odd traffic – is it legit?
While troubleshooting an unrelated network problem, I noticed an interesting pattern on one of our networks for the last few days (at least). Before crying wolf, I wanted to see if somebody here may have seen this pattern before, and wheth… Continue reading Very odd traffic – is it legit?
What protects the TCP connection from injections? [closed]
When a browser communicates with a webserver it opens a port for the communication on the client. If that port is opened, then I guess an attacker can try to inject their data through it. Is there something in the TCP standard that protect… Continue reading What protects the TCP connection from injections? [closed]
Msf windows 10 exploits showing error
When I use the exploit
windows/smb/ms17_0101_psexec
On port 445 I get this error :
192.168.1.6:445 – Rex::Proto::SMB::Exceptions::LoginError: Login Failed: Connection reset by peer
And when I use
multi/misc/msf_rpc_console
On sam… Continue reading Msf windows 10 exploits showing error