Poor telnet, it used to be the cool kid on the block. It was the program all sysadmins turned to when they needed to connect to a remote server. Telnet just wasn't that good at keeping a secret—all ...

when telneting into mail servers on port 25 some servers even if they are not an open relay will let you enter commands. on other smtp servers they accept the connection but the screen is blank and ...

Hackers are increasingly using the old Telnet remote-access protocol to attack corporate servers, according to a report released last month by Akamai Technologies Inc. The vendor’s quarterly report on ...