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Tutorual - Free Auditing of Active Directory for Information Security
Active Directory within a large organization goes through a lot of changes throughout the day. There are a lot of possibilities for error, creation of accounts with high privileges or missing the disabling task on an employee leaving the company.Info...
Security Information Gathering - Brief Example
When embarking on a security evaluation, the first stop for security information gathering is the Internet. Only connecting to the target public servers and DNS yields a wealth of information.So here is an example what can be learned in a couple of m...
Stopping a Corporate IT Infrastructure in a Single Blow - are you safe?
A corporate computer infrastructure is a large system, and one that is fairly resilient and made to last. After all, there are backup links, redundant servers, replication technologies all over the place. And yet, there is a way to temporarily incapa...
Obtaining a valid MAC address to bypass WiFi MAC Restriction
A reader in the comments on our post Example - Bypassing WiFi MAC Address Restriction made the following comment"# Obtain a valid MAC address that is allowed on the network - And that right there is the hard bit. Perhaps an article on that before dec...
Example - Bypassing WiFi MAC Address Restriction
Among security professionals, it is a well known fact that using only MAC Address restriction is useless as a protection mechanism for WiFi. But for the general publiv, this is still a popular method. This post aims to show how easy it is to actually...
ISS Increased Internet Threat Level
Yesterday Internet Security Systems (ISS) increased the Internet Threat Level to 2.The reason for this increase is the publication of an exploit code for the DNS Cache poisoning vulnerability. Most of DNS Servers have this vulnerability unless patche...
Template to Regulate your Firewall Configurations
In many companies, the powerful firewall systems are considered these black boxes and protection by and in themselves. Such organizations tends not to control their firewalls properly. This often leaves the full responsibility of firewall management ...
Keep Your Security Systems Patched
Even a company with very high level of security awareness can become a victim to simple oversight. Such companies have implemented the works: network segregation; firewalls on all egress points; corporate antivirus with automatic updates; WSUS server...
Check Your DNS Zone Transfer Status
The DNS service is a very low maintenance service. It is configured very easily, and runs with nearly no intervention. This is especially true for Windows DNS Servers. The downside of such ease of use means that the DNS server is often forgotten by t...
Network Access Control - A Solution with Problems
A lot of companies lately are seeing that their employees attach personal and company laptops to corporate networks, and bring Trojans and viruses into the network. A defence mechanism for this risk is seen in Network Access Control (NAC) solutions. ...
