Re: Malicious use of grc.com

[Chris <chrisb () bcnstech net>]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:09:59 -0800, H C wrote:

> > Not necessarily.  There are a vast number of
> > misconfigured proxies
> > available on the 'net that would afford a malicious
> > outsider ample
> > opportunity to do their dirty work without betraying
> > their point of
> > origin.  This negates the immediacy of any audit
> > trail and exacerbates the
> > severity of Gibson's oversight.
>
> For a port scan?  Really?

Hi,

Find just about any out of the box proxy setup and you will be able
to check things like http://host:1/ http://host:1234/ etc

I think squid is about the only one that blocks this misuse by
default? Could be wrong about that one though.. More could restrict
ports by default these days..

Regards
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Chris, chrisb () bcnstech net on 28/11/2001