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Old 30th December 2013 | 10:57
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mixture
 
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If you've ever dissected port scans, the *vast* majority of them scan known ports.
Still security by obscurity is still not a concept worth promoting though. Just setup the services properly on the standard ports.

For example, I run a number of SSH services set up on the standard port 22. But they are correctly setup with public key authentication, so I don't care about port scans because I know they'll be dropped by SSH if they try to connect. The logs are also easily filtered out.

The other problem with non-standard ports is you can easily run into filtering issues... WiFi hotspots for example might only allow a subset of common ports.

But then you knew all that already.....
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