MAC (Media Access Control), 416
MAC addresses
ARP and, 373
displaying, 106
nbtstat tool, 95
switching technology and, 368
wireless networks and, 416, 429, 440-442, 444- 446
Mac systems
firewalls, 138
port scanning, 136-138
security and, 136-138
Windows connections, 137
Macromedia Expression Evaluator issue, 538-539
mail exchange (MX) records, 36, 354
mailing lists, Bugtraq, 218
man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks, 367-368, 398, 400, 584-585
man-in-the-middle devices, 367-368
managed execution environments, 532
Management Information Base (MIB), 112-113, 115, 387-390
management protocol hacking, 404-405
mapping, wireless, 421-425
MBSA (Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer), 200
McAfee Entercept tool, 157, 643
MD5 algorithm, 391-392, 550
Media Access Control. See MAC
Merit Networks RADB routing registry, 359
MIB (Management Information Base), 112-113, 115, 387-390
Microsoft, 140-141, 505-506
Microsoft ActiveX. See ActiveX
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA), 200
Microsoft DNS services, 84
Microsoft Exchange Server, 84, 92
Microsoft Internet clients , 592-615
countermeasures, 600-612
exploits, 592-600
security zones, 579, 601-610
vs. non-Microsoft clients, 613-615
Microsoft Internet Information Server. See IIS
Microsoft Knowledge Base, 90, 110
Microsoft OEM Support Tools, 646
Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA), 92
Microsoft Passport vulnerability, 585, 620-621
Microsoft products, 587, 592
Microsoft Proxy Server, 465
Microsoft RPC (MSRPC), 91-92, 142
Microsoft security software vendors , 642
Microsoft Service Pack. See service packs
Microsoft SQL Server, 131-133
mieliekoek.pl script, 564
MIKEY (Multimedia Internet Keying), 345
MIME (Multi-Part Internet Mail Extension), 589
misconfiguration vulnerabilities, 386-393
MITM (man-in-the-middle) attacks, 367-368, 398, 400, 584-585
modems
brute force scripting and, 313
connections, 313
war-dialing and, 296-299
modulo-arithmetic, 227-228
mountd service, 239, 242, 244
MRTG traffic analysis, 547
msconfig utility, 587, 629-630, 636
MSN Messenger service, 617
MSRPC (Microsoft RPC)
countermeasures, 162-163
enumerating, 91-92
remote attacks and, 142
vulnerabilities, 142, 161-163
MSRPC port mapper, 161-163
Mudge, Peiter, 336-338, 513, 542
Multi-Part Internet Mail Extension. See MIME
Multimedia Internet Keying (MIKEY), 345
multimodem analog adapters, 297
MX (mail exchange) records, 36, 354