Re: Scanning external-lan computer, no results?

["Doug Nordwall" <raleel@gmail.com>]

well, i had a sort of "oh **#@!" moment, then i started laughing. this was in the same week that a scan took down their peoplesoft servers (don't scan those!!!! we see why.... people patch already!!!) and a lot of other devices that really should have been better protected. Needless to say, this illustrated a need to remove these machines from the network.

Short of it though was that I wanted illustrate how you should not be randomly scanning boxes ever, because they could come after you with very high powered lawyers and police and the like, for really good reasons, and not just "you scanned us".

On 1/30/07, Javier Fernández-Sanguino <jfernandez@germinus.com> wrote:

Doug Nordwall dijo:
> I was waiting for that.
>
> Short of it was, I had permission to scan behind firewalls and these
> were very sensitive controllers that go TU when they get scanned. Hit
> the one on a boiler, it overflowed, flooded (like, a few inches) a
> building.

A new (funny) version of the "printer keeps printing garbage after a
Nessus scan" problem. Indeed!

Javier

-- 
Doug Nordwall
Unix, Network, and Security Administrator
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. -- Mark Twain
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