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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Curious port filtering and traffic patterns suggest advisories weren’t the earliest warning signals sent Telcos likely received advance warning about January's critical Telnet vulnerability before its ...

A new report from Akamai Technologies shows that hackers appear to be increasingly using the Telnet remote access protocol to attack corporate servers over mobile networks. Akamai, which specializes ...

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 ...