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Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers

Critical vuln flew under the radar for a decade A recently disclosed critical vulnerability in the GNU InetUtils telnet ...

Hackers exploit critical telnetd auth bypass flaw to get root

A coordinated campaign has been observed targeting a recently disclosed critical-severity vulnerability that has been present ...
Houston Chronicle

How to Telnet on an Apple

While most network connections can be made via a Web browser on your Mac, other connection protocols that require different interfaces can be useful. If your business uses an internal network through ...
Ars Technica

How to associate telnet command with cmd.exe rather than Hyperterm

I feel like I should know how to do this, but I am teh fail.<BR><BR>Anyway, what I'm looking to do is set up an existing spreadsheet with all of our network elements and their IPs, so that when the IP ...
Ars Technica

force telnet to flush buffer? or some other way of troubleshooting HTTP socket connec

So, i’m trying to program an embedded device to connect to a website and pull down some data. However, I can’t quite test the protocol (and it’s a PITA to recompile and reupload to the device each ...
LinuxInsider

Sun’s Solaris 10 Highly Vulnerable to Unlikely Telnet Exploit

Sun Microsystems, Secunia, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team and other security agencies have issued alerts for a somewhat oxymoronic telnet vulnerability in the Sun Solaris 10 ...
Computer Weekly

Solaris 10 has zero-day Telnet flaw

Security experts have long considered Telnet a security risk because user names, passwords and all subsequent commands are transmitted as easily-exploitable plaintext. A new zero-day flaw in Sun ...