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ivanche
on Oct 9, 2020
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Some idiot is using your tool to mass scan our net...
TIL that masscan is actually a legitimate tool! It's one of the first user-agent strings I block on every new nginx installation.
mike_d
on Oct 9, 2020
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People who don't change the default user agent are legitimate security researchers. People with actual malicious intent change it to whatever the current Chrome UA is.
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