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| Subject: | Re: Attacking a machine on network. |
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| Date: | Wed, 30 May 2007 01:10:17 +0200 |
If someone doesn't run a service, this obviously leads me to the assumption that that particular machine could never be cracked ? Is this a right assumption ?
Not really. Some attacks actually target the drivers of the network-interfaces. For example the WLAN drivers on MacOS X and some versions of Madwifi had issues. Since those drivers listen to the traffic anyway, it might be possible to trigger some sort of overflow without a single listening port. Also information leakage may occur no matter if the box is running any ports itself. Furthermore there are other techniques to communicate with boxes than just ports. Look up "portknocking" for that. My two cents Paul
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