Comment on Chrome using Gemini Nano for ‘Enhanced Protection’ against scams
L3s@hackingne.ws 2 months agoWebsites you visit can port scan your entire network bypassing most firewall rules and NAT
Wut?
Comment on Chrome using Gemini Nano for ‘Enhanced Protection’ against scams
L3s@hackingne.ws 2 months agoWebsites you visit can port scan your entire network bypassing most firewall rules and NAT
Wut?
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
bleepingcomputer.com/…/ebay-port-scans-visitors-c…
L3s@hackingne.ws 2 months ago
Not sure if I’m missing something here, but that scans ports on the localhost, it is not a port scan of your entire network. While that’s still crazy and not something you want, it’s not quite what you initially said, and I don’t believe they’d be able to scan outside of your machine
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I think the principle could be applied to scan outside of the machine, but that’s an untested theory I have. I’ll edit this comment to expand on this when I give it a go.