The Register on MSN

Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers

Critical vuln flew under the radar for a decade A recently disclosed critical vulnerability in the GNU InetUtils telnet ...

Hackers exploit critical telnetd auth bypass flaw to get root

A coordinated campaign has been observed targeting a recently disclosed critical-severity vulnerability that has been present ...
CSO Online

Trivial Telnet authentication bypass exposes devices to complete takeover

The 11-year-old vulnerability likely impacts many devices that are no longer supported — and presents easy exploit even for ...
Ars Technica

force telnet to flush buffer? or some other way of troubleshooting HTTP socket connec

So, i’m trying to program an embedded device to connect to a website and pull down some data. However, I can’t quite test the protocol (and it’s a PITA to recompile and reupload to the device each ...
LinuxInsider

Sun’s Solaris 10 Highly Vulnerable to Unlikely Telnet Exploit

Sun Microsystems, Secunia, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team and other security agencies have issued alerts for a somewhat oxymoronic telnet vulnerability in the Sun Solaris 10 ...