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Anatomy of a Hack
By Nathan Drier
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The following story is true. It took place on a live production network. The tools, methods, vulnerabilities, and risks are all very real. Names and IP addresses have been changed to protect the businesses involved.
What makes this interesting to me, and why I thought it would be educational to document this, is the unique chain of misconfiguration and vulnerabilities that had to line up to allow a hack of this scale. The vulnerabilities by themselves weren't that critical, but the information I was able to obtain and the level of access I had are the things that nightmares are made of. This isn't skimming a few credit card numbers or sniffing some sensitive docs over unsecured wireless. This is the type of hack that makes businesses close their doors with little chance of recovery. If there is one thing I hope you can learn from this, it's: care about the little things, because fixing even one of the minor vulnerabilities described here could have broken this entire chain of events.
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