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I’ve researched this and found the following on StackExchange and ServerFault, but they’re very old.
https://serverfault.com/questions/55889/why-block-outbound-icmp
Is it a bad idea for a firewall to block ICMP?
Security risk of PING?
… Continue reading What security benefit is there in 2020 to block outbound Ping
Assuming I got a ton of vms with the same specs, can I enrich the entropy of dev/random for each vm by letting the vm ping itself a random amount of times?
The main issue I see is:
the random amount of times for 2 vms can be the same
th… Continue reading using ping to enrich entropy of dev/random
Just for fun, I’ve ping flooded my bluetooth speaker at home using l2ping on Linux and I was unable to connect to it as the pinging continued. I’ve tried flooding my phone and it seems to have received the packets as I got a response (just… Continue reading Why are some Bluetooth devices susceptible to ping floods and some are not?
I am trying to achieve a privilege escalation. I have a virtual machine on Linux and I escaped from an rbash terminal. I have now a “normal” user terminal. My user is not in the sudoers file.
Is it possible to perform a priv… Continue reading How to do a privileges escalation with ping?
Counting billable time in six minute increments is the most annoying part of being a lawyer. It’s a distracting waste. It leads law firms to conservatively under-bill. And it leaves lawyers stuck manually filling out timesheets after a long day when they want to go home to their families. Life is already short, as Ping […] Continue reading Lawyers hate timekeeping. Ping raises $13M to fix it with AI
Preempt is happy to release version 3.1, available today! Included in the release are a brand new security assessment dashboard, exciting features offering more visibility and better password and network security, new technology partners and produ… Continue reading What’s New in 3.1? New Dashboard, Exciting Integrations, and A Free Product!
When i redirected a single webpage to an address http://0.0.0, i also found that 0.0.0 is an alias of the network address, but since it is only 3 bytes, this seems to be strange.
Why would chrome and system ping “accept” to u… Continue reading Why is 0.0.0 an associate of 0.0.0.0?
Do router’s normally use the ping command to discover local hosts? I ask because while I was at work my firewall on my personal laptop blocked two pings (among other things) and it said they came from the router. Is this norm… Continue reading Is router pinging local hosts normal functionality?
Enterprises struggle to understand what is truly going on in their organization: what their users are doing and how to stop risky activity. Add in the complexity of a hybrid cloud environment, multiple legacy systems, unmanaged endpoints, and unsa… Continue reading Ping + Preempt: Securing All Access In Hybrid Cloud Environments
I made a change on a serial-to-ethernet converter and the device is no longer pingable or accessable through the webUI, but when I do a IP scan, NMAP picks it up as:
Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.10
Host is up (0.00069s la… Continue reading I did a IP scan on a network and I see the IP is scannable, but I cannot ping the device