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 ...

A port is a gateway on a computer through which a connection is established. To test the network and Internet connection in your business, test the connection port using the Telnet utility in Windows.

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 ...

You can't always just hang around waiting for the next big Microsoft security update. Sometimes you have to go and make your own destiny -- even if it means probing a few dusty ports. That's ...

Assuming the interface really is Telnet-based (which it may not be; with most Telnet clients, if you specify a port number other than 22, it's not really speaking Telnet the protocol any more), you ...

I had an interesting question posed to me yesterday. What is the command on a Windows 2003 system that will verify that a port is open on a remote machine?<br><br>Im aware of netstat -an on the local ...

The world is full of network applications that get things done, have withstood the test of time and have rotten security. Telnet? Brilliant in its simplicity and versatility, but it transmits your ...