[Cialug] FYI: Pioneer detected an nmap scan last night

Tim Kromphardt aaronmit at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 09:53:51 CDT 2012


Not me! I was remoted into my VPS anyway ;D

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:48 AM, kristau <kristau at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was giving a presentation to the Central Iowa Linux User's Group
> (CIALUG.org) last night at Alliance Technologies. The topic of that
> presentation was "BackTrack 5 Network Security Discovery" (slide deck:
> http://goo.gl/tF2zL) It is possible that one of our guests chose to
> run an nmap discovery scan against pioneer.com while connected to our
> public wireless. I'm certain there was no malicious intent behind this
> scan, and it was purely an act of curiosity.
>
> Kenneth Ristau | Senior Technical Consultant, Enterprise Architecture Group
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