Re: [squid-users] disabling version number

From: George Patterson <george@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:20:02 +0930

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:00:37 +0930
Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 09:32:18PM +0200, Sander Winkel wrote:
> >
> > I think hiding the version number makes it difficulter for a hacker
> > to do his job.
> >
>
> Not really. They will just try all the exploits to see if any work, a
> few extra seconds spent running scripts.
>

Also, The other thing they can do is to fingerprint the server in
question or just run nmap or something like it.

Regards

George Patterson
Received on Mon Apr 14 2003 - 18:48:47 MDT

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