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Port shimmering: a new way to hide valuable ports in plain sight shimmer is a pair of small programs (a client and a server) that provide an alternative to port knocking program such as tumbler and are used to hide a valuable port (such as a hidden web server or SSH) on a public IP address. more inside

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