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Have you left port 445 open?

By Davey Winder in Editorial

Posted in Security on August 29, 2006 at 4:47 pm

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Having spent 15 years or so immersed in the world of IT security from both sides of the hacking fence, you might think that nothing would surprise me. You would be wrong. The truth is that I am constantly surprised, as are most of my security peers, by the ingenuity of the attacker, the stupidity of the victim and perhaps most of all the indifference of the developer.

The biggest surprise to hit me this month, however, came from the perhaps predictable Microsoft quarter. Well, OK, that

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Comment by spiele - November 2, 2009 on 9:26 am

As 445 is also used by the Win2k / WinXP worm “Lioten” also known as “iraq_oil.exe”. Since a couple of weeks or so firewall logs show a heightened incoming activity on Port 445, very likely due to this worm.

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