Oh ok......mmm...I run Netbus Detector which has reported a couple of hacing
attemps on my machine...they get no where, but when I stopped the webcam
server, the attemps stopped....thats whay I asked if it is secure or
not..etc.
Thanks for the info tho, puts my mind at rest a little...
Cheers,
Jeremy Coulter
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-----Original Message-----
From: Glen Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 10:03 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic
Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: Port Security
Jeremy Coulter wrote:
>
> When the server gets a request on that port it sends an image to the
webpage
> requesting it.
> OK, thats fine, BUT how can I find out how secure that port is ??
> I telnet-ed to the server, but when I do something (like a key stroke) it
> comes back with an error message, which is good...BUT I am not good
enought
> with telnet to be able to know if this is hackable, and not really sure if
> it is possible to do it anyway....
>
> Can anyone give some clues on if it is insecure, how to secure it up ? or
> ANY information on the above.
If your program is the only thing listening on that port then it will be
the only thing answering as well. The only thing you should be wary of
is someone crashing the program with say a huge string. More of a
problem with C but just something to look for.
Glen
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