CHAPTER 6
WINDOWS AUDITING
In Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Valley of Fear, Sherlock Holmes berates a police inspector: “Breadth of view is one of the essentials of our profession. The interplay of ideas and the oblique uses of knowledge are often of extraordinary interest.” In this chapter, I hope to demonstrate how to collect knowledge about remote computers for your own, oblique uses. At the very least, you might like to generate a list of users who have interactive access to the target system; but many other bits of information can be collected as well. What software is installed? What patches have (or have not) been applied? Password guessing ...
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