Re: Wake on LAN in corporate environments

[HaQue <admin () smartwave-wireless com>]

And after you get the DA account, or whatever privs you need, you can 
shut them down remotely so that they are none the wiser, and you can 
continue with the test until complete.  That is of course if no-one is 
working late, in which case they would probably be freaked out enough to 
make a call!  :-)

HaQue

On 2013-10-18 01:56, Kevin Geil wrote:
> No, but what a great idea for turning everyone's machine on when I
> want to run vulnerability scans at night.
>
> I've always wondered about the security implications of WOL. We use it
> on a few machines that might need this service, but from time to time,
> consider turning it on globally…
>
> Thanks for sharing.
>
> Kevin
>
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> I'd never thought of WOL being used in corporate environments but
> someone mentioned the other day that theirs did so I was wondering if
> anyone tries flooding a network with WOL packets as part of a test to
> see if anything new wakes up.
>
> It wouldn't take long to fire off a packet to every MAC address as
> it's a single packet and you don't care about the reply. If it is a
> standardised environment then you could limit the number you would
> have to send based on OUI.
>
> Robin
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