Hackers Bringing Telnet Back

alphadogg writes "A new report from Akamai Technologies (CT: Requires login) shows that hackers appear to be increasingly using the Telnet remote access protocol to attack corporate servers over mobile networks. The report, which covers the third quarter of 2010, shows that 10 percent of attacks that came from mobile networks are directed at Port 23, which Telnet uses. That marks a somewhat unusual spike for the aging protocol used to log into remote servers but that has been gradually replaced by SSH."

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Re:who still uses telnet?

[peragrin]

Let's see spend $100,000 every 20 years to upgrade the software or spend $50,000 a year to pay someone to do it in house, and still get a vendor locked in solution, but only now you are the vendor.