Poor telnet, it used to be the cool kid on the block. It was the program all sysadmins turned to when they needed to connect to a remote server. Telnet just wasn't that good at keeping a secret—all ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...