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Old 14-02-08, 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by kuki9591
Thanks for the response, NTP is already closed on the firewalls, the pentesters ran the scan on the same subnets as the servers.
You mean they came in, ran a standard automated test suite, handed over the output and charged a fortune

You have to question the validity of the test to your own circumstances. There is usually a lot of other traffic floating around a typical subnet announcing the Windows servers to anyone able to drive Ethereal.

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Google used to be my friend until this little gem came along.
As far as I know there is no way to change the reply from the time service on Windows servers. Which is what the security experts mean when they say
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technical information that would be of use to an attacker in fingerprinting the Operating System on the server.
The choice seems to be;
1. Accept that any host able to query the time service can discover it is a Windows server.

2. Completely replace the time syncronisation infrastructure across the Active Directory domain.
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