I figured I’d throw this out there.. I wanted to make sure that in the event that somehow my network were infected by something that used this vulnerability that it would be limited to an individual machine. Basically, I didn’t want it on my file server. Also, at the bottom of this post I give [...]
Posts Tagged ‘file’
File Server LNK Protection
Posted: 22nd July 2010 by Matt in hacks, news, securityTags: bat, block, dll, exe, file, file screening, file server, Linux, LNK, NAS, protect, Protection, Samba, screen, share, spread, Stuxnet, Veto, vulnerability, Windows
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p0f and (mostly) Passive Finger Printing
Posted: 30th June 2010 by Matt in code, hacks, securityTags: access, ACK, detection, dns, file, file server, fingerprint, firewall, gateway, IDS, interface, network, nmap, os detection, p0f, packet, perl, ports, raw, RawIP, root, routing, RST, sniff, source port, spoof, SQL, steal, syn packet, traffic
Today I was tasked with doing some passive OS detection on a network where I actually had to be somewhat stealthy. I had gotten into the gateway, but I actually needed one of the other boxes on the network in order to get to the file server due to firewalling/routing. I knew they were running [...]
The Benefit of a Strong Password
Posted: 30th June 2010 by Matt in hacks, news, securityTags: character combinations, crack, daniel dantas, dictionary attack, encryption software, fbi, file, hard drives, open source, partition, password, security, software, strong, truecrypt
So, in my post, “How Your Passwords Get Hacked“, I pasted a table that showed how long, on average, it would take to crack a password. Well, here’s a real life example of the benefit of a strong password The FBI has admitted defeat in attempts to break the open source encryption used to secure [...]