Date: 09/01/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: no keywords

I have been asked by my boss to come into work an hour late tomorrow. He wants me to have a go at trying to break into our computer network from home.

I haven't tried this in any serious way before and am a little unsure about where to start... I would imagine steps would be:

1) See what ports are open on the visible machines and what OS / firmware they are running
2) See if there are any exploits known for those OS/applications etc
3) If you get a shell login prompt attempt to crack the password / social engineer a password out of a member of staff (I was thinking about calling up and pretending to be from our ISP or something)
4) Sit in the car with a laptop and break the wireless WEP key & spoof the MAC address

Any other suggestions?

PS. No. I'm not trying to crack someone elses system. No. Really I'm not. :D

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