networks
IT department was not pleased, but was also easily fooled
WHO, ME? Welcome to the working week, dear reader, which as always we open with a fresh instalment of “Who, Me?” – the reader-contributed column that offers an education in how not to do things at work.This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Roger” who told us that a decade or so back he managed teams that designed electronic shop tools and associated test kit.Roger admits he had begun to find the job a little boring, and so he sometimes found himself exploring things not strictly related to the job.
Which was how he found Nmap, the popular network mapping tool.
“One Friday afternoon, with apparently nothing better to do, I started using Nmap to poke around our internal network,” Roger admitted. He enjoyed the experience, and it sparked an idea: Why not run the tool all weekend, to get a view of the entire company’s network?“It was a mid-sized company, with engineering, sales, marketing, admin, and even a factory,” he told The Register. “I was curious how the IT boffins had the network set up and thought it would be fun to run a massive scan of the network over the weekend and see what turned up.”He therefore set Nmap running and left for the weekend.
