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• non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Umm…

  You know how that works, right? Like, if you don’t want to expose ports, just… don’t expose them. But you can’t prevent port scanning.

  I would love to see the support request from AWS for this.

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  • MightBeFluffy@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t have any ports. I do not care if I did. Port scanning is not authorized traffic.

    I would love to see the support request from AWS for this.

    Here you go:

    Mandiant ASM scanners perform a variety of security-related data-gathering tasks, all intended to positively identify assets and their security posture. The gathered information is analyzed by our research team and proactively published to the owners of this information through our freemium product. No Collection task performed requires authorized access. It is intentionally designed to be light. While your IDS or WAF may have alerted on these scans, these are benign flags and are not indicative of malicious behavior.

    If you have further questions, or would like to opt-out, please reply to this message and you will be routed to the appropriate team.

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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      port scanning is not authorized traffic

      Hahahahahaha

      And?

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      • cellardoor@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I think they have a LOT to learn about how the internet ‘works’ as well as how the internet works.

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      • MightBeFluffy@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        And abuse forms get filled out

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    • ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In other words their response was “hey dumbass here’s what happened, now move along”. They didn’t do anything except school you.

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      • MightBeFluffy@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Dude there is a weird disconnect going on in the comments. Yes bots are thing, yes services are abused, yes not everyone plays nice on the Internet, yes you can’t control what traffic comes in. I know I’m going to be seeing more this and yes I’m obviously not going to be responding to every one of them.

        It was my brand new server’s first and I felt like celebrating the event by filling out the AWS abuse form. It was literally copy and paste.

        Also, I’m not fussed about what ever services they are running. I didn’t ask for it or want it. I told them as much and I going to leave it at that.

        No one got schooled. There is nothing wrong with telling someone who shows up at your business to please don’t come back. Y’all need to chill.

        Well this whole thing was fun but I’m going to get on with my day

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    • non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Port scanning is not authorized traffic.

      Lol what

      I think you should read the terms of your AWS contract. How do you think aws moves instances if not for agents gathering metrics?

      And this case is Mandiant, so you’re fine.

      Are you sure you’re ready for AWS?

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      • MightBeFluffy@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Not on AWS

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    • TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You have bad takes, so my recommendation is to not block Mandiant ASM so that they are able to find stuff, if you mess up.

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• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Good luck with that.”

  I realize you’re inexperienced and excited, but this is truly no big deal. Port scans are quite common and aren’t even always malicious. You can use nmap to scan systems yourself - just to see what’s out there or to test if your firewalls are woking, etc.

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  • qt0x40490FDB@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And the first time I used nmap on my college network, a professor called up the help desk to report that he had been port scanned.

    Then my freind at the help desk told me not to run nmap again and to wait until after dark to pull all the reel to reel tapes out of the dumpster….

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