By default, access from openSUSE or any Linux box,to a Windows Vista CIFS share is broken. The cause is that Samba speaks NTLM while Vista speaks only NTLMv2. Googling provided the solution, but it does not seems well known yet. A workaround is to make Vista more flexible on client acceptation. If you are running…
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BNAT stands for “Broken NAT“. In the scope of Jonathan Claudius work, a NAT is considered broken when the client receives a reply from a server behind a NAT with a different IP than the one it sent the request to. It happens with bad implementations where the DNAT (destination NAT) and the SNAT (source NAT) use…
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I recently attended to the 2011 edition of the SSTIC conference (a major security conference in France), where I had a good time and where the slides of Joanna Rutkowska somehow inspired me. I shamelessly decided to reuse and extend her mind-map style diagram from a system security centric view into something more generic and…
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