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Re: Server.casino – Random Servers Across the Internet

#21

This is an extremely bad idea. Your chances of getting some malware are probably more likely than not, after playing around with something like this for 10+ minutes...

How? The odds of hitting a site with a browser 0-day has to be extremely low, certainly not "more likely than not". Sure you might hit sites that try to get you to download malware, but just don't download anything.

Re: Server.casino – Random Servers Across the Internet

#22
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never thought of this. I constantly scan the internet using nmap, or similar, for pentest/bug bounty and never had a problem

How are you pentesting without knowing the IPs of your in-scope targets?

Some times you get a IP Range, or a domain-wide scope

Re: Server.casino – Random Servers Across the Internet

#24
DO NOT DO THIS.

I have a few servers exposed on IP addresses, but they are not meant for public access. You have no authorization for 'messing' with this site: what you deem playing around, might be hacking.

You may also hit a government or military IP address, known or unknown. If you mess around with them, you may receive some unfriendly visits from men in black.

Re: Server.casino – Random Servers Across the Internet

#25
post #24

DO NOT DO THIS. I have a few servers exposed on IP addresses, but they are not meant for public access. You have no authorization for 'messing' with this site: what you deem playing around, might be hacking. You may also hit a government or military IP address, known or unknown. If you mess around with them, you may receive some unfriendly visits from men in black.

If its on the public internet with no security, how can someone tell if their access is unauthorised? Its not really that different from connecting to facebook.com or the various publically accessible ssh servers.

Re: Server.casino – Random Servers Across the Internet

#26
post #24

DO NOT DO THIS. I have a few servers exposed on IP addresses, but they are not meant for public access. You have no authorization for 'messing' with this site: what you deem playing around, might be hacking. You may also hit a government or military IP address, known or unknown. If you mess around with them, you may receive some unfriendly visits from men in black.

You have unprotected servers public facing on the internet? Cool. That's definitely not something you should be concerned about and addressing immediately.

Re: Server.casino – Random Servers Across the Internet

#27
post #24

DO NOT DO THIS. I have a few servers exposed on IP addresses, but they are not meant for public access. You have no authorization for 'messing' with this site: what you deem playing around, might be hacking. You may also hit a government or military IP address, known or unknown. If you mess around with them, you may receive some unfriendly visits from men in black.

> they are not meant for public access

Then, I think, you need to implement "reasonable measures" to secure them. Otherwise it's like putting your stuff out by the curb.

Re: Server.casino – Random Servers Across the Internet

#28

This is an extremely bad idea. Your chances of getting some malware are probably more likely than not, after playing around with something like this for 10+ minutes...

How? The odds of hitting a site with a browser 0-day has to be extremely low, certainly not "more likely than not". Sure you might hit sites that try to get you to download malware, but just don't download anything.

Half the struggle in exploiting someone behind NAT/FW is getting them to engage with your infrastructure. Your attack surface is massively increased once you visit a website with your browser for instance.

I see other comments mentioning logging into random IPs over ssh. Now i trust the ssh client implementation more than most software, but it's easy to slip up and enable ssh agent forwarding for instance.

Re: Server.casino – Random Servers Across the Internet

#29
post #24

DO NOT DO THIS. I have a few servers exposed on IP addresses, but they are not meant for public access. You have no authorization for 'messing' with this site: what you deem playing around, might be hacking. You may also hit a government or military IP address, known or unknown. If you mess around with them, you may receive some unfriendly visits from men in black.

I mean, your IP is being crawled by random bots dozens of time per day, what's the difference between that website and the traffic your IP gets already?
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