Character Generator Protocol: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 08:01, 21 October 2013

Revision as of 13:31, 28 October 2013

Line 51:

So notorious is the availability of CHARGEN in printers that some distributed denial of service trojans now use UDP port 19 for their attack traffic. The supposed aim is to throw investigators off the track; to have them looking for old printers rather than subverted computers.

A revival in the use of CHARGEN for attack traffic in June 2013 lead Brielle Bruns to comment to the NANOG mailing list, "*checks her calendar* I for a second worried I might have woken up from a 20 year long dream...."

==See also==