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« on: May 23, 2008, 06:22:31 AM »

My log file told me that a couple of exploits(LSASS and DCOM exploits) were tried on my system's one of the VM (windows xp2) from the following IPs

10.8.240.93
10.8.154.135

But how is this possible, since these addresse are in the reserved RFC 1918 address range and should never appear on public internet.
Any clues ?
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« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2008, 06:26:45 AM »

ummm are you sure that is not coming from your internal network ?
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« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2008, 07:35:47 AM »

I'd check my internal ranges as Vijay2 states, but it is also possible that the source address is spoofed (assuming the exploit in question does not require communication back).
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« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2008, 10:26:54 AM »

Without looking back and reading it, I think RFC 1918 states that they won't be routable as a destination. But if they are spoofed, they could without a doubt show up in your logs as a source address.

Correct me if I'm wrong as I've never been a big one for plowing through RFCs.

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« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2008, 12:53:31 PM »

Correct me if I'm wrong as I've never been a big one for plowing through RFCs.

Only when I'm having trouble sleeping  Wink
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« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2008, 06:08:00 PM »

Don is correct. This can be solved by using a stateful firewall that does sanity checks on the data packets going through it.
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« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2008, 08:51:47 PM »

Question Negrita, Comodo would fall under this catagory?  And what other firewalls (personal) would you suggest?
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« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2008, 02:41:47 PM »

I am not very familiar with Comodo. At home I have Zone Alarm installed on Windows, and an access list on my router. At work I sometimes (rarely) use Sygate, but not for protection, but rather for session analysis.

Back in my old job (until 2006) I used to work with commercial firewalls on a daily basis. Check Point and Fortigate were definately the best I worked with. I must admit that since then I haven't touched a firewall.  Embarrassed
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« Reply #8 on: June 11, 2008, 03:27:28 PM »

After a bit of retrospect, I don't see how a personal firewall can be stateful. A stateful firewall should;
1. Detect packet spoofing so that you don't get packets with private IP addresses in their source arriving at your gateway.
2. Check the session state. i.e. It won't let an ACK into the network if it didn't see the SYN going out first.
3. Close sessions based on a preconfigured timeout, so that it won't allow a seemingly valid packet for a session that has been idle for many hours.

Personally I think it more practical to configure something like this at the gateway or in the DMZ than on workstations themselves.
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« Reply #9 on: June 11, 2008, 03:59:43 PM »

Thanks for the reply.  I just started using Comodo at home on a box.  I am finding I like it actually.  I've used the Zonealarm free firewall for years, but the Comodo seems even easier to set up, and it come with a built in registry lock.  I like that.  I still haven't decided if I want to take a PIX firewall course, or just start doing some study on my own with some open source firewalls. 

On kind of a side note, Snort is doing a 4 day bootcamp/training gig up here in Seattle in September... and they're going to have some of their snort certs available after.   Any of you taken any of their Certs, or know if they're even recognized and useful?  I'm probably going to take the course just to give me a quick jumpstart into IDS/IPS, since I want to set some of that up at my office.
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