Re: Wake on LAN in corporate environments

[Chris Campbell <chris () ctcampbell com>]

BigFix, a remote patching product, has WOL built in if I remember rightly, so there are probably a few sites out there 
that can be exploited. 

> On 17 Oct 2013, at 15:57, Josh More <jmore () starmind org> wrote:
>
> I've done this in some environments.
>
> Nessus has a plugin to make this easier:  
> http://www.tenable.com/blog/leveraging-wake-on-lan-support-to-audit-powered-off-hosts-with-nessus
>
> -Josh More
>
>
> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:
> > I'd never thought of WOL being used in corporate environments but someone mentioned the other day that theirs did so 
> > I was wondering if anyone tries flooding a network with WOL packets as part of a test to see if anything new wakes 
> > up.
> >
> > It wouldn't take long to fire off a packet to every MAC address as it's a single packet and you don't care about the 
> > reply. If it is a standardised environment then you could limit the number you would have to send based on OUI.
> >
> > Robin
> >
> >
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