What do net attackers look for?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 05:30:06PM -0500, Mike Oliver wrote:
> I don't really want to know all the gory details.  I'm mostly interested
> in the answer to the direct question:  If an attacker can guess your 
> password
> and your firewall is off, but you haven't turned on any of the obvious
> daemons, what is the risk level?

I guess it depends if your kernel has any security holes in itself.  In
general though if no services are listening, it is quite secure.

You generally can't say that about windows since by default it does have
services listening.

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