Re: Remote Desktop/Term. Serv information leakage

[Joachim Schipper <j.schipper () math uu nl>]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:25:54PM -0500, Terry Vernon wrote:
> write a daemon to run on the windows box that won't allow renaming the 
> file extensions of .txt to anything else. do it for every type of file 
> you can paste text in. Set up better controls for traffic going to the 
> remote desktop so only trusted people can access it. if you could access 
> it from outside the private net and your computer had internet access 
> then that network is accessible from the internet just not directly. It 
> would take some doing but if a network has one wire going to any number 
> of other networks that have one wire that touches the internet you can 
> bet that it is crackable however improbable it seems.
>
> Terry Vernon
> CTO
> Sprite Technologies

Preventing renaming of .txt is not very useful, as notepad will gladly
save it as whatever you please, including .exe. And if notepad, by some
leap of logic on MS' part, lost this ability since I last used Windows,
there are literally hundreds of other tools that won't complain. In the
worst case, just use DOS' edit, which has a lot less compunctions about
'proper' file types.

Copying binary files accross the clipboard may or may not work; in the
worst case, compile yourself a Win32 exploit and do a manual
byte-by-byte copy using your hex editor of choice.

Copying stuff from the secured network is still remarkably easy; in the
worst case, open a document, take a snapshot of your (remote) desktop,
and repeat until bored. Then compress the images and mail them off.

I wholly agree with you on the 'indirectly connected' comment, though.
With the addition that properly secured machines *aren't* crackable. Or
at least, not easily.

I'm still not sure what the original poster is trying to guard against,
though...

                Joachim