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Re: [LUG] being scanned etc

 

Good point Kevin,

If the offending scans came from a private IP addy like 192.168.x.x
then its likely a hacker piggybacking your Wlan

Steph


2008/11/3 Kevin Tunison <ktunison@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Simon WD Robert
> <simon.robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have had a number of warnings from my router. All the messages have
>> the same format, a bunch TCP packets, all from the same IP (different IP
>> for each warning message) followed by a UDP packet from a nother IP. Any
>> ideas what's being attempted?
>>
>> I'm not particularly worried, I've run a port scan and everything is
>> stealthed and unresponsive, but I'd like to know.
>>
>> Simon
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>>
>
> The first thought that comes to mind is that may be an attempt to
> exploit the fairly recent DNS vulnerabilities.  You could suss that by
> the ports the packet are aimed at. Like Steph says, it is fairly
> common.  I'm curious if this came in over wireless or the ISP network?
>
> Regards,
>
> KevinT
>
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