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Re: [PEN-TEST] 2 quick questions
From: "Bock, John (ISS San Francisco)" <JBock () ISS NET>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 14:26:20 -0500
There was a phrack article about setting up a tunn on the cisco and dumping traffic out to a internet host with a prog called tunnelx on your side. Never tried it tho,anybody use this? http://packetstorm.securify.com/mag/phrack/phrack56/p56-0x0a /* THINGS TO DO IN CISCOLAND WHEN YOU'RE DEAD: "What you want to do is reroute some traffic from a router and send it to some other place, capture it and resend it to the router and make it look like nothing ever happened." */ btw: is the dns for phrack.com hosed or is it just me?
From: Leon Rosenstein [mailto:l_rosenstein () MONTELSHOW COM] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 8:55 AM To: PEN-TEST () SECURITYFOCUS COM Subject: [PEN-TEST] 2 quick questions Hi everyone I was curious about two things as far as pen testing goes. First is I was curious about routers: If a network has a router (a
hardware
one, not a computer running Linux or NT). Is there anything to be gained from breaking into the router through one of the remote administration points? Is this thus a fruitless exercise or is there something to show
the
customer or gain yourself if you are auditing your network's security? Second I was curious about social engineering. Is this considered "fair play?" Is it discussed in advance? If you're allowed to do it how far do you take it? Do you take it the point where you do a mass mailing of BO or Sub 7 to show the owners of the network how vulnerable they are to this
flaw
(because isn't social engineering kind of a flaw even though it is a human one?) Or do you just stop with tricking them into revealing user names and passwords? I am not pen testing, I was just thinking about these things before I fell asleep last night and I was curious. Anyway public or private responses welcome. Thanks.
Current thread:
- [PEN-TEST] 2 quick questions Leon Rosenstein (Dec 16)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] 2 quick questions Talisker (Dec 16)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] 2 quick questions Bill Pennington (Dec 16)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] 2 quick questions M Schubert (Dec 16)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] 2 quick questions sporty o'one (Dec 16)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] 2 quick questions Joe Shaw (Dec 19)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: [PEN-TEST] 2 quick questions Bock, John (ISS San Francisco) (Dec 18)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] 2 quick questions Jose Nazario (Dec 18)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] 2 quick questions Skinner, Tim L. (Dec 19)