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[ale] Firewalling question
- Subject: [ale] Firewalling question
- From: gstone at mediaone.net (Glenn R. Stone)
- Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 19:16:27 -0400
UnderGrid Founder wrote:
> I've had the pleasure of playing with a Linux box with Samba on a
> cablemodem network and it is quite humorous as we supplied the provider with
> several inches of printouts of account passwords (including the provider's
> NT Administator account password) from just a few hours of sniffing the
> cable modem segment just to prove how insecure it really was... 20 mile radius
> LAN on one segment... our provided proof made them re-think the arch design
> and segment'd the network into smaller chunks...
OK, now how do I get my own cablemodem admins (in this case, MediaNone)
to listen when I turn in the fact that they've got a security risk
running around on their own network banging on random telnet ports?
--gs