[PLUG] SSHing to a box behind a firewall... netcat maybe?

Matt Alexander m at pdxlug.org
Sat Dec 27 23:13:01 UTC 2003


Mark Allyn said:
>
> Can you please be careful in doing this? In many companies,
> if you are caught, you can get into trouble.
>
> Where I used to work, they monitored all of the network traffic
> using sniffers on the firewall's lan. IT Secuirty was very suspicious
> of traffic that they cannot identify or justify. I knew of one person
> who did get fired for trying to do something like this.

Since I'm the sys/net admin this was more a proof of concept for my own
curiosity.  Now I'll investigate methods for protecting against this.




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