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[–] Lauchmelder@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It detected a bunch of databases running on localhost. Which is weird because although all of the DBs it detected are present in my network, they're not on localhost. How did it figure that out?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Port scanning, Steam does it to track everything on your network.

https://github.com/ACK-J/Port_Authority

As an add-on it'll let you know when a website tries and blocks but you can allow.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

And this is why i ssh tunnel into my local services.