What Hackers Know About Your Network - That You Don't!

 Automated Tools Are a Wonderful Thing


Cyber criminals don't scan each individual network on the Internet one by one. They have automated tools that randomly scan every IP address on the Internet.


Hackers aren't lazy people - just very efficient. And very intelligent. The tools they use can be preloaded with a range of Internet addresses to scan. As this tool finds an Internet address with certain openings it produces a list of the address and the opening. This list is then fed into another tool that actively tries to exploit that opening with various programs. If no exploit works, the hacker's program moves on to the next potential victim.


When you see the scanning activity in your firewall logs, you'll know where you're being scanned from and what they're trying to target. Armed with that data you should check to see if you're running software that uses that port and if it has any newly discovered openings. If you are using software listening on that scanned port and there is a patch available, you should have that patch applied immediately - because the hackers may know something you don't.

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NOTE: It's been our experience that many businesses patch their Microsoft Windows software but rarely do they check for patches for all the other software used in the business.


As stated, you'll see this activity in your firewall logs - that is, if someone is actually reviewing your firewall logs.

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