Re: HTTP CONNECT attempts

From: Michal Zalewski (lcamtufat_private)
Date: Tue Apr 16 2002 - 20:21:17 PDT

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    On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Dmitri Smirnov wrote:
    
    > need an advice. I've got more them 20 "HTTP CONNECT" IDS alerts (BugTraq
    > id 4131)  from 3 diff. sources for today and yesterday. Looks like some
    > tool is out and people started to use it. The only problem is: I don't
    > understand why people are trying to use port 80 to connect to port 443
    > (which is usually open to a world in my case).
    
    Spammers or irc kiddies looking for proxies, perhaps?
    
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