Re: [botnets] [URL formats]

2008-08-29 Thread David Harley
I tend to use hxxp[s]:// -and- some random spaces. Substituting for the xx's and stripping the spaces isn't usually going to be a problem for scripting. -- David Harley BA CISSP FBCS CITP Director of Malware Intelligence ESET LLC I think it's better to add some SPACEes in the URL, kind of

Re: [botnets] URL formats -blacklist=censorship

2008-08-29 Thread Dave Ellingsberg
freedom and heads will roll. blacklists have never been a solution! Censorship is just Censorship. foot. From: Dan Drinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Chris Lee' [EMAIL PROTECTED], botnets@whitestar.linuxbox.org Date: 08/29/08 2:03 AM Subject:Re: [botnets] URL formats Hello Everyone

Re: [botnets] URL formats -blacklist=censorship

2008-08-29 Thread Johannes Ullrich
May I remind everybody that the purpose of this list is to share information. What you do with this information is up to you (more or less). If you use it as a blacklist: fine, I hope you know what you are doing... On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tell me how this

Re: [botnets] [URL formats]

2008-08-29 Thread David Harley
- From: freed0 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 August 2008 17:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: botnets@whitestar.linuxbox.org Subject: Re: [botnets] [URL formats] Spaces suck because they are never in the same place and then you cannot really easily automate the import process

Re: [botnets] [URL formats]

2008-08-29 Thread freed0
Spaces suck because they are never in the same place and then you cannot really easily automate the import process into whatever system you may have that would work on it. I think that the hxxp[x] solution is an easy and fine one that it easy for everyone to use. Using any other type of

Re: [botnets] URL formats -blacklist=censorship

2008-08-29 Thread John C. A. Bambenek, GCIH, CISSP
Censorship. foot. From: Dan Drinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Chris Lee' [EMAIL PROTECTED], botnets@whitestar.linuxbox.org Date: 08/29/08 2:03 AM Subject:Re: [botnets] URL formats Hello Everyone! First, my apologies for not doing my Lurk Time here - I only started

Re: [botnets] URL formats

2008-08-28 Thread Steven Adair
heh I think this is a discussion that's been had many times. A lot of people use and I am in favor of obfuscating http links with: hxxp://urlformat then for any URLs that have sensitive info that you want to still post use removed, example:

Re: [botnets] URL formats

2008-08-28 Thread Gadi Evron
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Michael Collins wrote: It would be enormously helpful. Personal bias: I do a lot of data analysis on stuff collected by a bunch of groups, and my biggest headaches are always normalization and how did you figure this out, so if we had a standard, that would make my life,

Re: [botnets] URL formats

2008-08-28 Thread fiberOptiC
Are you asking about a standardized reporting format pertaining to all the information you have obtained and wish to share? fiberOptiC Rizon IRC network On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Gadi Evron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Michael Collins wrote: It would be enormously

Re: [botnets] URL formats

2008-08-28 Thread Gadi Evron
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, fiberOptiC wrote: Are you asking about a standardized reporting format pertaining to all the information you have obtained and wish to share? The suggestion was about URLs. For now, people.. just share. On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Gadi Evron [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [botnets] URL formats

2008-08-28 Thread Chris Lee
hxxp seems to be advantageous for a few reasons: 1. you can still cut and paste the url 2. the protocol handlers won't load it up if you accidently click on it 3. you can add a protocol handler for hxxp for whatever you want 4. easier to recognize domains and patterns (rather than rotted

Re: [botnets] [URL formats]

2008-08-28 Thread II0o203l7
I think it's better to add some SPACEes in the URL, kind of break it, since Gmail will convert it to clickable URL if only substitute http to hxxp. On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also concur. Also can we please set default reply to be the mailing list? Or is that a