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Telnet Based Attacks
White Papers Telnet is unique in its design with the notable exception of rlogin. Telnet is designed to allow a user to log in to a foreign machine and execute commands there. Telnet (like rlogin) works as though you are at the console of the remote machine, as...
[February 20, 2005, 23:00]
IRC Hacks: IRC Over Telnet
White Papers A good way of understanding how these commands work is to connect directly to an IRC server with Telnet and type these commands in directly. Telnet allows to establish a TCP connection to a port on a remote machine and simply start typing in...
[October 10, 2007, 0:00]
Build Your Own Linux Server
Talkback he suggests turning off the insecure telnet, yet uses ftp.which is just as insecure as telnet. Not smart. Your using smb mostly, so ssh and scp should be acceptable for administration. VNC isn't exactly secure either, but the only option for people...
[April 25, 2004, 2:49]
Improving The Performance Of Interactive TCP Applications Using Service Differentiation
White Papers Interactive TCP applications, such as Telnet and the Web, are particularly sensitive to network congestion. First, it look into application-based marking, and show how the protection of Telnet traffic against loss can eliminate large echo delays...
[January 14, 2008, 23:00]
Microsoft Server Bugs Open The Door To Hackers
News Microsoft has warned of vulnerabilities in its Exchange 2000 server software and Telnet remote-access service that could open the doors to malicious hackers. The two Telnet products contain unchecked buffers, which means that a malicious hacker...
[February 11, 2002, 13:48]
Improve Linux Security
News And like other commonly used TCP/IP applications, telnet has a standard defined port number, 23, which is also the address of the running telnet server application. So any telnet client running on any remote workstation on the network can establish...
[October 8, 2002, 10:39]
Worm Exploits Solaris Hole
News The worm takes advantage of a security hole in the Solaris telnet service that was first disclosed earlier this month. The SANS Internet Storm Center, which monitors internet threats, has noticed some increase in activity on the network port used...
[March 1, 2007, 8:06]
Don't Broadcast Info About Windows Servers To Hackers
News For instance, a Telnet command to port 80 of a Windows Web server will quickly reveal OS and service pack. This may mean turning off services you don't necessarily use, such as HTTP, FTP, Telnet, and/or SMTP.
[January 21, 2003, 8:14]
Symantec 'expecting Net Attack'
News Furthermore, the vulnerability exists only if the Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and Telnet Sessions is in use, Cisco said. That component of IOS handles authentication requests for file transfer and telnet sessions.
[September 8, 2005, 9:10]
Flaw Gives Hackers Key To Unix Computers
News Chairman Tatu Ylonen founded SSH in 1995 when he launched a software project to replace Unix's "telnet" command to log in to remote computers. SSH's encrypted communications channel shields commands sent in the open, as with telnet.
[July 24, 2001, 9:29]
Build Your Own Linux Server
Talkback I thought telnet was turned off by default in RH9 On my RH 9 machine i had to enable it. So who's wrong!
[May 11, 2004, 13:40]
MIDP Terminal Emulation, Part 2: Advanced Terminal Emulation
White Papers The ANSI terminal standard is a protocol much like the Telnet protocol. It defines special sequences of characters that allow an application to distinguish between commands to be interpreted and data to be written to the screen.
[November 18, 2004, 23:00]
Securing Internet Access
White Papers The Symark PowerBroker security software package can be used in conjunction with a firewall machine to secure incoming telnet and rlogin sessions, and all outgoing user-initiated Internet activities. This paper describes how to use Symark...
[July 19, 2003, 0:00]
Baylis Logistics Drops Unix And Windows To Increase Productivity With Red Hat Thin Client Architecture
White Papers With the PCs primarily used for browser-based and telnet applications and only some operations staff also using email, the majority of users had little requirement for the feature-rich desktop environment of over-specified PC hardware.
[December 2, 2007, 23:00]
MobileVT
Downloads Emulates telnet, vt102, vt100, vt52, ssh and ansi terminals; connects using network adapter, modem, serial port (also bluetooth and Ir types); transfers files with xmodem, zmodem and scp protocols. Terminal emulator for Windows Mobile Pocket PC.
[April 14, 2008, 1:01]
MIDP Terminal Emulation, Part 4: Securing Your Mobile Communications
White Papers For Internet protocols that operate in the clear, like Telnet, encryption is a must. This paper discusses the need for securing the communications of mobile applications and describes a simple way to do so.
[November 6, 2007, 23:00]
TN Bridge Host Integration Pack
Downloads By providing connectivity to IBM S/390 and AS/400 systems through standard telnet protocols it gives access to screen-oriented applications without third-party terminal emulators. Integration Pack is a set of components and productivity tools to...
[March 1, 2007, 0:01]
SecureCRT Customer Success Story: Tucows
White Papers As part of their security program, Tucows replaced nonsecure protocols such as Telnet and mandated the use of Secure Shell. Many know Tucows as one of the net's largest software download sites, and the first to provide software on a freeware or...
[December 2, 2007, 23:00]
HP Storageworks NAS 8000 High Availability Use Of Multi-Computer/Serviceguard For Linux
White Papers This paper explains the mapping between MC/Serviceguard and the command line interface available via telnet. The HP NAS 8000 High Availability feature is implemented using HP Multi-Computer/Serviceguard for Linux.
[December 5, 2003, 23:00]
A Thin Client Solution For Retail POS
White Papers Up to 12 full-screen colored TELNET sessions are available through standard Ethernet or SLIP connections. The client corporation is Canada's leading drugstore retail chain on the forefront of technology in the pharmaceutical retail industry.
[January 18, 2005, 23:00]
