E-commerce attack imminent; Sudden increase in port scanning for SSL doesn't look good

[Anne & Lynn Wheeler]

E-commerce attack imminent; Sudden increase in port scanning for SSL
doesn't look good.
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1975

... aka not necessarily an attack on SSL itself ... but identifying
end-points with open SSL ports as attack targets i.e. end-points with
open SSL ports are likely to be somewhat higher value targets than
machines w/o SSL ports .... since the operators possibly feel they have
something to protect.



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Anne & Lynn Wheeler | http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/

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