OS X: My New Security Platform
By Daniel Miessler on February 7th, 2006: Tagged as Information Security | Linux | Nmap | OS X | Tools
I’m making the switch. My new system is going to be my security box as well as my main system. Well, either that or I’m going to see if work’ll buy me a Mac. Check it:
daniel@kairin daniel $ nmap tiberius
Starting Nmap 4.00 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-02-07 02:23 EST
Interesting ports on tiberius (10.100.5.200):
(The 1666 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT STATE SERVICE
135/tcp open msrpc
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
445/tcp open microsoft-ds
1025/tcp open NFS-or-IIS
1027/tcp open IIS
3389/tcp open ms-term-serv
Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.900 seconds
daniel@kairin daniel $
…and that’s running from OS X (compiled natively) — no remote shell to a Linux box or nuttin’. Sure, we’ve been able to do this for a long time now, but for some reason I’ve been silly and haven’t.
From now on I’m going to be compliling all my security apps natively instead of using package managers for OS X; they just aren’t mature enough to me, and the packages all seem dated.
Yeah, this rocks.