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Mass FTP Crawling

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Re: Mass FTP Crawling

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Previous title said: "I scanned a country on port 21 and analyzed the data". The country is The Netherlands. Is there a way to contact the server owners to tell them about this? I feel bad that so many servers are open possibly without the knowledge of the owners.

There are 1+ million anonymous FTP servers on the Internet ( https://www.shodan.io/report/OY7YoHou ) and it's usually difficult to determine who the owner is. I haven't yet found a good way of notifying users, the best bet is to send the data to the respective ISP or CERT and hope for the best. On a related note: there needs to be way more attention on NAS devices. Many of them are connected to the Internet, poorly s…

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Re: Mass FTP Crawling

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The "Sensitive Files" add up to 7005, while the total number of files is 18088392. In other words, <0.04% of them.

The amount is much higher as I have only tried a limited amount of keywords. There are many servers that have complete backups of the Windows folder 'My Documents' for example. Combined, I'd say at least half of it is not meant to be public, thus sensitive.

Re: Mass FTP Crawling

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post #4

Your sidebar overpays the text on a narrow screen, making it impossible to read. People can scroll, your navigation does not need to be visible all the time.

What device are you viewing on? I'd say "impossible to read" is a pretty wild exaggeration. Looks fine to me.

Re: Mass FTP Crawling

#14
FTP file indexing used to be how I found everything on the Internet before HTTP existed. Does anyone else remember Archie? (My coworkers thought I was a wizard.)

Re: Mass FTP Crawling

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post #13
post #4

Your sidebar overpays the text on a narrow screen, making it impossible to read. People can scroll, your navigation does not need to be visible all the time.

What device are you viewing on? I'd say "impossible to read" is a pretty wild exaggeration. Looks fine to me.

It seems to have been fixed.
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