Penetration Testing: Re: Pen testing Cisco 4700, and 6509 series

[Neil Moore <neil () droopy com>]

On a pentest of a router, I go for the SNMP communities first using a 
dictionary.  Many times I have found the community strings used exist in 
a dictionary or are blasted out all ports because of arp timeouts.  Once 
you know the ReadWrite string. a tool such as Cain can retrieve the 
config of the router.. Then using that, you can go after passwords, etc 
by turning a port into a span/monitor port on the switch and using Cain 
to sniff more passwords.
my 10 bits..

-Neil Moore CCIE #10044 (R/S,Security,SP,Voice)
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> On 5/6/06, sherwyn williams <s-williams () nyc rr com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I know there like tons of tools out there to pent test Cisco 
> > equipment, but
> > what might be the best ones for the 4700, and 6509 series. This is 
> > from a
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you need to proactively protect your applications from hackers. Cenzic has the 
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