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Log in | Join now | Help SEARCH: Client Relations | Vendor Relations | Career | Project Management | Technology Home : IT Consultant : Technology : Article    Resources:   E-newsletters   Discussion Center   Technical Q&A   Downloads   Books & CDs   Products & Services   Peer Directory   White Papers    Featured Product: Hacking the hacker: How a consultant shut down a malicious user on a clients FTP server August 19, 2003 | John Verry | E-Mail Rating: 4.9 / 5 | Rate this article Discussions:  69 Post(s)  |  1 NEW  |  View posts This article was originally published on TechRepublic in August 2003. It was the most widely read piece of content on the site for the next three month period, and one of the most highly rated articles ever published on TechRepublic. Ethical hacking is one of the most intriguing and exciting elements of our work. In most engagements, our efforts involve attempting to penetrate a clients network, documenting the results of our efforts, and recommending optimal strategies for mitigating the risks we have identified. A recent engagement for a software development firm took an interesting twist at the onset of the project, as we quickly discovered the clients FTP server had already been hacked and was being used for illegal purposes. Ill describe the techniques we used to meet the clients requirements and explain how our efforts turned from hacking their network to hacking the hacker. Late to the party We convened with the client for a brief kickoff meeting to reconfirm the objectives of the Limited Knowledge Penetration Test (PT) and to gather sufficient information to ensure that the testing did not affect normal business operations. We began our preliminary research by reviewing publicly available information relating to the target company, including news ...

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