Hacking public-information kiosks
Public-information kiosks are supposed to allow users to find out more about a company or government agency, and that's all. But on Saturday afternoon, Shanit Gupta, a senior consultant at McAfee Foundstone, demonstrated several ways that he and others have been able to map the internal network on a system running XenApp, formerly Citrix Presentation Server.
On the demonstration screen at ShmooCon, an East Coast computer hacking conference, Gupta showed how the familiar toolbars and browser frame are missing on a system running XenApp. The idea is that on a kiosk the public can click on links only within … Read more