A common and critical vulnerability exploited during penetration tests is that of reused Local Administrator passwords. This issue is a common one it allows an attacker to find a vulnerable machine on a network, pull the administrative hash out of that machine and then log-in to a more interesting machine or ultimately privilege escalate.
Tag: Local Admin
Pre-Execution Boot, or PXE, is a method of booting a workstation machine by loading an operating system across the network. If PXE boot can be enabled (often it is enabled by default, even when machines are restricted from booting CDs or USB Devices) then an stripped down Linux operating system can be loaded over the network and used to compromise the target.