[ale] Firewalling question

Glenn R. Stone gstone at mediaone.net
Thu May 6 19:16:27 EDT 1999


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






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