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| Subject: | Re: Security Issues with Wake on Lan (WOL) |
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| Date: | Wed, 03 Nov 2004 09:17:29 +1300 |
On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 10:46, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
Another issue - if an attacker can power up an unpatched or misconfigured or otherwise vulnerable machine, they can then do what they want to it all night.....
true, however the flip side is that you can use WOL to do automated patching of desktops in the small hours so hopefully less of your machines are vulnerable. Yet another illustration of the axiom that there are no global right or wrong answers in security. Everything is a balancing act dependent on lots of local circumstances. This leads to another unintended consequence. To disable (for whatever reason) such a system it is not enough to just power it off, you have to unplug it from the network too! -- Russell Fulton, Information Security Officer, The University of Auckland New Zealand
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