Why would anyone use a work computer connected to Activate Directory that can load proxy security certificates. Sophos blocking access is the least of the concerns. For the life of me I'll never understand why.people do personal stuff on company equipment, us Net Admins can view all the traffic in plain text. Logins, passwords, and GET and PUSH. Sigh....
Yes and no actually, but I doubt anyone would go far enough to worry with it. If you're employer allows port 3389 connections on publicly routable IP Addresses I wouldn't worry to much about anything their security is mid-tier at best. It's normally secured by adding a whitelist of IP Addresses for this protocol, so most home IPs are going to be blocked. Yes you could change the port but still same protocol. The main thing is the key being used to establish encryption for the session, again company proxy. In theory if I wanted to recompile the session from proxy records it's possible to see key strokes. I have not tested it since the big security update they pushed out, mainly I don't care. By I'm sure the possibility still exists. Feel free to setup Burp Proxy and test it over a Switch and check it for yourself.
Sophos works on a dedicated firewall. Think about how you have a router right? Traffic flows through it and then goes to your computer. Well a dedicated hardware firewall puts a physical device between the router and your computer (and the rest of the network) to block traffic based on certain patterns, or by rules like "what IP address is trying to access this specific part of our network". And since it's a dedicated piece of hardware and not software on a server you can't just shut it off without either hacking the firewall (logging into the IP internally with admin credentials and turning off protection) or, you know, disconnecting it from the network physically.
All I got is a similar sounding "sophist/sophistry" which generally has a negative modern connotation although the ancient Greeks had a different idea. Ah, looking at a dictionary entry for "sophist" shows this:
ORIGIN
mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek sophistēs, from sophizesthai ‘devise, become wise’, from sophos ‘wise’.
Well, we're getting "wise" to them, I'd say.
edit: also "sophistication/sophisticated" come from this origin.
What the fuck is Sophos anyway
Yeah are we sophos to know this?
Dad?
🤣🤣🤣
Sounds like VD
I don't know the details, but essentially a corporate internet security provider.
They're used to mass-block specific content (NSFW, etc.), and provide anti-virus overwatch within a large-scale computer network.
I.e; They keep me from my memes when I'm at work
Why would anyone use a work computer connected to Activate Directory that can load proxy security certificates. Sophos blocking access is the least of the concerns. For the life of me I'll never understand why.people do personal stuff on company equipment, us Net Admins can view all the traffic in plain text. Logins, passwords, and GET and PUSH. Sigh....
I limit my personal use on my work laptop to checking the weather
Not if I connect to my home PC over an RDP tunnel you can't. Care to try again?
Yes and no actually, but I doubt anyone would go far enough to worry with it. If you're employer allows port 3389 connections on publicly routable IP Addresses I wouldn't worry to much about anything their security is mid-tier at best. It's normally secured by adding a whitelist of IP Addresses for this protocol, so most home IPs are going to be blocked. Yes you could change the port but still same protocol. The main thing is the key being used to establish encryption for the session, again company proxy. In theory if I wanted to recompile the session from proxy records it's possible to see key strokes. I have not tested it since the big security update they pushed out, mainly I don't care. By I'm sure the possibility still exists. Feel free to setup Burp Proxy and test it over a Switch and check it for yourself.
You won’t on my network.
Yep...But muh farmville.
Sophos works on a dedicated firewall. Think about how you have a router right? Traffic flows through it and then goes to your computer. Well a dedicated hardware firewall puts a physical device between the router and your computer (and the rest of the network) to block traffic based on certain patterns, or by rules like "what IP address is trying to access this specific part of our network". And since it's a dedicated piece of hardware and not software on a server you can't just shut it off without either hacking the firewall (logging into the IP internally with admin credentials and turning off protection) or, you know, disconnecting it from the network physically.
My friend, we were already the news but with that explanation, we are now Wikipedia!
Corn pop has entered chat
Sophos sounds like a suppository.
All I got is a similar sounding "sophist/sophistry" which generally has a negative modern connotation although the ancient Greeks had a different idea. Ah, looking at a dictionary entry for "sophist" shows this:
ORIGIN mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek sophistēs, from sophizesthai ‘devise, become wise’, from sophos ‘wise’.
Well, we're getting "wise" to them, I'd say.
edit: also "sophistication/sophisticated" come from this origin.
I recall Sophistry as “false wisdom”