“Lately I have seen some weird and funky entries in my Apache
access_log and /var/log/messages.
One of them is this entry:
211.216.216.97 - - [27/Feb/2001:13:11:00
+0100] "GET /index.htm%20XCVC/7.0 HTTP/1.1"
404 311
What is this string: %20XCVC/7.0? And was he scanning for some
vulnerable Web server, or was it generated by some Web tool?…”
“I’m curious about a recent article I read in an English
computer magazine about port sniffers. If a person using such a
program found an open port on someone’s machine, how could they
access it? And how can I protect myself from such an
attack?…”