Windows machines are brothers, always willing to help out when a fellow host is feeling lost and lonely. We're already used to relying on DNS for name resolution. We're looking for a name, we query our DNS server, and if the DNS server doesn't have the record matching the request, it passes it along to the next DNS server in line. It's a hierarchical structure and it can go all the way up to the highest name authorities of the entire internet. Local Windows networks, on the other hand, are part of a special club. When you share the same local link as another Windows computer, you can broadcast your name request and the other Windows boxes will hear it and reply with the name if they have it. Packets ...
Hash capture with LLMNR/NetBIOS NS spoofing
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