http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1821
Could be used in reconnaissance to detect the type of VPN technology you are
using. The above link may be of help.
-----Original Message-----
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 11:58 PM
To: klaus.dombrofsky@degussa.com
Cc: incidents@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Port 500 scans
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 11:19:39 +0100, klaus.dombrofsky@degussa.com said:
On my IDS i detected massive scans from single ip-addresses to different
ip-addresses with source AND targetport 500.
This scan uses alsmost the whole bandwith of our internet-access.
Question:
Does someone know any existing worm using a VPN-vulnerability ?
Would you believe some garden-variety scanning exploit running on some
random
0wned machine that has the "Always try using IPSec first" option set?
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