Archive for the ‘IT Security’ Category

Windows Share Permissions Allow Folder Traversal

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

2009-09-22 Initial Post

Tested with Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Windows XP Professional SP3.

An account that has Read permission to a share, but no permissions at all to the shared folder itself, can still traverse the shared folder to get to a subfolder for which it does have permission to. (more...)

SSL / HTTPS Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

2008-12-24 Initial Post

The other month I was wondering if HTTP SSL traffic could be spoofed by some type of man-in-the-middle scenario and just the other day I read an article (more...)

Brute-Force and Dictionary Password Attacks

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

2008-01-26 Initial Post

From what I’ve been able to determine, these types of attacks are very difficult against an account database such as Active Directory. Here are my thoughts on this: (more...)

Network Sniffer Limitations

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

2008-12-30 Initial Post

Data travelling in clear text is vulnerable to network sniffers, but technologies such as network switches and VLANs make it difficult to actually sniff all packets. Switches and VLANs contain broadcast traffic. (more...)

Password Synching For Remote AD Users On VPN

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

2009-07-28 Initial Post

Tested on Windows XP SP3 with Cisco VPN Client 5.0 and Windows Server 2003 SP2 AD

Remote users who need to sync their laptop’s locally cached password with their AD password can do the following: (more...)