There are some good tools on the Internet (free) Like this one: http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/ This is just a basic port scan (likely tcp open check) unfortunately a hacker will use multiple scans and some of the different flags a packet can have. There are 2^8 ports and 6 different flags for packets (SYN/ACK/RST/FIN/URG/PSH) A good … Read more
Internet Storm Center says Heartbleed around the net is slowly being patched. How do they know that? Well, in case you are not a programmatic person… One can easily scan the Internet to find out what is going on, and that is exactly what the bad guys are doing all the time. They know when … Read more
Use LastPass check which allows the user to test a website to know whether it has updated the openssl technology. Some site do not have this type, and may not matter, and others may have openssl and have patched. But yet others may not be aware of this vulnerability… and if that is the case … Read more
Many vendors have put out statements for OpenSSL vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160): This is a vulnerability in the encryption technology (OpenSSL) on websites and other systems. If you cannot safely access websites with encryption technologies it is a bad day on the Internet isc has a full list – list is increasing: But most interesting (to me) … Read more
Port 6789 according to Speedguide.net the port can be used by a Netsky worm variant, but is also used by the Sun cluster manager. In fact that is how the worm replicates itself across the Internet, by using the Java software on the cluster manager software (smc-https or Solaris Management console). Many ports are thus … Read more
