by Hunter Feybusch
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by Hunter Feybusch
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- Microsoft, Firefox and others are warning companies to move away from use of FTP (file transfer protocol) due to security vulnerabilities
- Recommendation is to move to SFTP (secure file transfer protocol) or FTPS (file transfer protocol secure)
- Insecure FTP ports create opportunities for hackers to send their own malicious payload or other threat actors to intercept network traffic
- SFTP aka SSH File Transfer Protocol (secure shell FTP) provides encrypted data transfer over SSH port 22
- FTPS or FTP-SSL (secure sockets layer) runs on port 990 by default
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