Hackers are increasingly using the old Telnet remote-access protocol to attack corporate servers, according to a report released last month by Akamai Technologies Inc. The vendor’s quarterly report on ...

Bad actor obtained passwords for servers, home routers, and smart devices by scanning internet for devices open to the Telnet port. A hacker has published a list of credentials for more than 515,000 ...

When I go to HackerWatch.org to check on my ports (Windows XP Home, Windows Defender, Ad-aware, SpyBot and AVG), it tells me that Port 23 (Telnet) is open/unsecure and accepting connections. Three ...

I went grc.com and saw my port scan, and it shows that port 21 and 23 are open. These are FTP and Telnet respectively.<P>Why are these open in Win2k Server and how do I close them? I don't have FTP ...

Dutch security researcher Victor Gevers has discovered 2,893 Bitcoin miners left exposed on the Internet with no passwords on their Telnet port. Gevers told Bleeping Computer in a private conversation ...

You can't always just hang around waiting for the next big Microsoft security update. Sometimes you have to go and make your own destiny -- even if it means probing a few dusty ports. That's ...

Attackers can drop malware, add the device to a botnet or send their own audio streams to compromised devices. Imperial Dabman IoT radios have a weak password vulnerability that could allow a remote ...

Does anyone out there know if there is a software terminal server. I'm looking to connect a serial device into the serial port of a computer and have it talk telnet.<BR><BR>Currently we have a leased ...

Port forwarding settings allow your router to "pass through" telnet traffic. Without port forwarding configurations, the router blocks telnet sessions to the hosted telnet server. Each router has its ...

The latest online malware, dubbed Brickerbot, is particularly nasty, as it virtually destroys vulnerable devices. This new approach has led to a new term, PDoS, for Permanent Denial of Service. Hacked ...