A DDOS proposal.

2000-02-11 Thread Dragos Ruiu
Panic Button, open trouble notification channel: Attack Defender The appropriate place to suggest this solution was at the NANOG meeting on DDOS but I didn't think of it before then so I thought that a posting to bugtraq may float this proposal for public discussion. The term ISP is used below

Packet Tracing (linux klog patch)

2000-02-14 Thread Dragos Ruiu
One of the problems that people have is logging the origin of the attack streams and tracing packet paths through the networks. Here is a small bit of code that may help you inexpensively deploy some packet loggers at key network ingress/egress points. The real solution is to get Dragon or NFR or

Re: Packet Tracing (linux klog patch)

2000-02-17 Thread Dragos Ruiu
and have it work. Call it the data motel security model and approach... :-) cheers, --dr On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Dragos Ruiu wrote: How to use it: -This patch makes the kernel log all ethernet packets to syslog. -The logging happens at the default

kyxspam: isc loses mind

2001-02-01 Thread Dragos Ruiu
ou to seek management approval for entry into this forum, and then either contact, or have a responsible party contact, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Vixie Chairman ISC -- Dragos Ruiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] dursec.com ltd. / kyx.net - we're from the future gpg/pgp key on file at wwwkeys.p

802.11 wep broken

2001-02-05 Thread Dragos Ruiu
url: http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-faq.html Be careful with your wireless networks. cheers, --dr -- Dragos Ruiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] dursec.com ltd. / kyx.net - we're from the future gpg/pgp key on file at wwwkeys.pgp.net or at http://dursec.com/drkey.asc CanSecWest/core01: March

Re: Snort exploits

2002-04-17 Thread Dragos Ruiu
Heh, well... first... don't panic. :-) First of all I would like to commend Dug on his responsible disclosure stance. He has given the IDS vendors several months heads up that this stuff is in the pipe... I think everyone who needed to know knew this was coming down the pipe, so this is in

fragroute vs. snort: the tempest in a teacup

2002-04-18 Thread Dragos Ruiu
Just a quick follow-up to the fragroute alarmism (which I see has prompted Mr. James Middleton at vnunet to write a news story Evasion tool put's Snort's nose out of joint :-). First, this is not a snort-only issue, as I would wager other idses have as many if not more evasion modes as well as

CanSecWest/core03

2002-09-20 Thread Dragos Ruiu
CALL FOR PAPERS: CanSecWest/core03 The fourth annual CanSecWest computer security training conference is scheduled to be held April 16-18 2003 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Submissions and presentation proposals for tutorials for this conference will be accepted during the months

Re: passlogd sniffer remote buffer overflow root exploit.

2003-04-04 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On April 3, 2003 08:24 am, dong-h0un U wrote: Hello. Exploit confirmed possible truth in OpenBSD. But, I did not exploit. Also, did not test in RedHat 8.0. ... /* ** ** [*] Title: Remote Multiple Buffer Overflow vulnerability in passlogd sniffer. ** [+] Exploit code:

EUSecWest/London Call for Papers and PacSec/Tokyo announcements

2005-11-07 Thread Dragos Ruiu
url: http://eusecwest.com url: http://pacsec.jp (PacSec/Tokyo Announcement below...) EUSecWest/core06 CALL FOR PAPERS London Security Summit February 20/21 2006 LONDON, United Kingdom -- Applied technical security will be the focus of a new annual conference

EUSecWest papers and CanSecWest CFP

2006-01-12 Thread Dragos Ruiu
url: http://eusecwest.com url: http://cansecwest.com (CanSecWest Call For Papers attached below) EUSecWest/core06 Conference --- Announcing the final selection of papers for the EUSecWest conference in London, U.K. on Feb. 20/21 at the Victoria Park Plaza Hotel. The

CanSecWest/core06 Vancouver April 3-7

2006-03-08 Thread Dragos Ruiu
The call for papers is now closed and the proposals have been reviewed for the CanSecWest/core06 Applied Technical Security Conference held on April 5-7 2006 at the Mariott Renaissance Harbourside in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. The selected submissions are : An hour of Rap and Comedy about SAP -

Re: Fedora confirms: Our servers were breached

2008-08-22 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On 22-Aug-08, at 7:41 AM, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote: New information about the important infrastructure issue affecting to Fedora Project has been released today. Mr. Paul W. Frields, Fedora Project Leader has posted an announcement about the facts, including: One of the compromised Fedora

PacSec 2008 CFP (Deadline Sept. 1, Conference Nov. 12/13) and BA-Con 2008 Speakers (Sept .30/ Oct. 1)

2008-08-26 Thread Dragos Ruiu
Spanish url: http://ba-con.com.ar/speakers.html?language=es Speaker list and Dojos for BA-Con, September 30, October 1st. (all presentations in both Spanish and English) Presentations: WPA/WPA2: how long is it gonna make it - Cédric Blancher Simon Maréchal, EADS SGDN Security Concerns

CanSecWest 2009 CFP (March 18-20 2009, Deadline December 8 2008)

2008-11-25 Thread Dragos Ruiu
Call For Papers     The CanSecWest 2009 CFP is now open.     Deadline is December 8th, 2008. CanSecWest CALL FOR PAPERS     VANCOUVER, Canada -- The tenth annual CanSecWest applied     technical security conference - where the eminent figures     in the international security industry will get

Re: [Full-disclosure] SendGate: Sendmail Multiple Vulnerabilities (Race Condition DoS, Memory Jumps, Integer Overflow)

2006-03-23 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On March 23, 2006 01:41 am, Gadi Evron wrote: Here's what ISS releasing the Race Condition vulnerability has to say: http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/216 They say it's a remote code execution. They say it's a race condition. No real data available to speak of. I can't see how it's

PacSec 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline Aug. 4; Event Nov. 27-30)

2006-07-17 Thread Dragos Ruiu
url: http://pacsec.jp PacSec 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS World Security Pros To Converge on Japan TOKYO, Japan -- To address the increasing importance of information security in Japan, the best known figures in the international security industry will get together with leading Japanese

CanSecWest 2007 (April 18-20) Call For Papers (Deadline January 7th)

2006-12-14 Thread Dragos Ruiu
CanSecWest 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS VANCOUVER, Canada -- The eighth annual CanSecWest applied technical security conference - where the eminent figures in the international security industry will get together share best practices and technology - will be held in downtown Vancouver at the the

Re: Flaw in OpenOffice.org 2.1: OpenOffice 2.1 is vulnerable to MS Word 0 day vulnerability!!!

2006-12-18 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On Friday 15 December 2006 10:07, Bruno Lustosa wrote: On 15 Dec 2006 09:49:54 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try yourself with OpenOffice.org 2.1: http://www.milw0rm.com/sploits/12122006-djtest.doc Crashed OpenOffice.org 2.1 on my Linux system (Gentoo using

EUSecWest 2007 Papers

2007-01-19 Thread Dragos Ruiu
Hi, For those who asked, we are still processing the submissions for CanSecWest and the call closed, please stand by. The paper selections are back from the reviewers for EUSecWest, in London on March 1-2. In absolutely random order: Threats against and protection of Microsoft's internal

CanSecWest 2008 Mar 26-28

2008-02-22 Thread Dragos Ruiu
CanSecWest 2008 Presentations Snort 3.0 - Marty Roesch, Sourcefire Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities in Flash Authoring Tools - Rich Cannings, Google Proprietary RFID Systems - Jan starbug Krissler and Karsten Nohl, CCC Media Frenzy: Finding Bugs in Windows Media Software - Mark Dowd and

EUSecWest CFP Closes April 14th (conf May 21/22 2008)

2008-04-10 Thread Dragos Ruiu
(We've moved the conference this year to the a club in Leicester Square in the heart of London and SoHo. We'll be putting speakers up across the square at the Radisson Edwardian Hampshire, but there are lots of hotels in the region there in the center of London for those who want to attend (the

FInal EUSecWest 2008 Speakers

2008-05-09 Thread Dragos Ruiu
The selected papers for EUSecWest 2008 are: * PhlashDance, discovering permanent denial of service attacks against embedded systems - Rich Smith, HP Labs * Attacking Near Field Communications (NFC) Mobile Phones - Collin Muliner, trifinite * Abusing X.509 certificate features -

BA-Con 2008 CFP - Buenos Aires, Sept. 30 / Oct. 1 (closes July 11 2008)

2008-06-27 Thread Dragos Ruiu
BA-Con 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- The first annual BA-Con applied technical security conference - where the eminent figures in the international and South American security industry will get together and share best practices and technology - will be held in

PacSec 2007 Call For Papers (Nov. 29/30, deadline July 27)

2007-07-04 Thread Dragos Ruiu
PacSec CALL FOR PAPERS World Security Pros To Converge on Japan TOKYO, Japan -- To address the increasing importance of information security in Japan, the best known figures in the international security industry will get together with leading Japanese researchers to share best

Re: Internet Explorer 0day exploit

2007-07-14 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 08:53, Gadi Evron wrote: To paraphrase Guninski, this is still not a 0day. It is a vulnerability being disclosed. You're being pedantic Gadi. :-) We have to accept the term 0day has passed into the realm of meaningless nebulousness along with hacker and other misused

Really, really, penultimate, PacSec CFP deadline, Aug 10.

2007-07-31 Thread Dragos Ruiu
Some folks have been trying to convince us to extend deadlines, so being the sticklers we are, we said: no way... But they convinced us. So to be fair - this is a heads up for others who didn't have time to submit. :-) We'll try to turn around the selection reviews ASAP, before the end of August

PacSec 2006 Papers announcement and EUSecWest Call For Papers

2006-10-03 Thread Dragos Ruiu
The PacSec 2006 paper selections have been announced: Smashing Heap by Free Simulation - Sandip Chaudhari Methods of increasing source code security automatically - Ben Chelf, Coverity IPTV: Triple Play Triple Threats - YM Chen, McAfee Windows Vista Security Model - Matt Conover,

pacsec hype security team: 7 words of warning about Macromedia Flash Player 9+

2006-10-10 Thread Dragos Ruiu
Advisory: The new Flash player adds network functions! Details: With a minor amount of fanfare binary socket support has been added to Flash Player 9 / ActionScript 3.0. The Flash sandbox model is primarily focused on preventing modifications to the local system, and thus there are many ways to

PacSec Hype Security Team: CGI.pm param injection

2006-10-13 Thread Dragos Ruiu
== PacSec Hype Security Team param injection in CGI.pm and inheritors allows SQL injection and manipulation of data bypassing many perl web form validators

EUSecWest/London CFP extended to Nov. 7

2006-11-03 Thread Dragos Ruiu
Hi folks, some brief news: Some people have asked for late submissions to the EUSecWest paper selections. In the interest of fairness, we are extending the deadline for all until next Tuesday (November 7), at which time the submissions will be reviewed. Details of submissions can be found on the

PacSec 2007 Agenda (Tokyo 11-29/30)

2007-10-22 Thread Dragos Ruiu
Talk selections for PacSec 2007 - November 29 and 30 - Aoyama Diamond Hall --- - Programmed I/O accesses: a threat to virtual machine monitors? - Loic Duflot, - Developing Fuzzers with Peach - Michael Eddington, Leviathan Security - Cyber Attacks Against Japan - Hiroshi Kawaguchi, LAC -

In Memoriam: Jun-ichiro Hagino

2007-10-30 Thread Dragos Ruiu
With great sadness, I regret to inform you that Itojun will not be presenting his great knowledge of IPv6 at PacSec. I have been informed by several sources that he passed away yesterday. Funeral services will be held on Nov 7th at Rinkai-Saijo in Tokyo. There aren't many details of his

IM upgrade automated social engineering attack

2007-11-02 Thread Dragos Ruiu
With all the proliferation of phone home for update systems in even trivial software packages these days, neophyte users can easily get confused about legitimate upgrades and imposters. So someone is trying to take advantage of this with an automated version of an old school social engineering

Re: IM upgrade automated social engineering attack

2007-11-06 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 02:37, Roman Shirokov wrote: Hey all I confirm that, I received several messages as well. The text of message is: WINDOWS REQUIRES IMMEDIATE ATTENTION = ATTENTION ! Security Center has detected malware on your computer ! Affected

CanSecWest 2008 CFP (deadline Nov 30, conf Mar 26-28) and PacSec Dojo's

2007-11-09 Thread Dragos Ruiu
I'd like to congratulate Adam Laurie for winning the second Powerbook from the Pwn_to_Own contest as the prize for the best speaker rated by the audience for his presentation on RFID at CanSecWest 2007. We will have a similar prize for the best speaker at CanSecWest 2008, prize TBD (but we promise

EUSecWest 2009 CFP (May 27/28, Deadline April 7 2009)

2009-04-02 Thread Dragos Ruiu
Call For Papers The EUSecWest 2009 CFP is now open. Deadline is April 7th, 2009. EUSecWest CALL FOR PAPERS LONDON, U.K. -- The third annual EUSecWest applied technical security conference - where the eminent figures in the international security industry will get together

EUSecWest 2009 (May27/28) London Agenda and PacSec 2009 (Nov 4/5) Tokyo CFP deadline: June 1 2009

2009-05-06 Thread Dragos Ruiu
EUSecWest 2009 Speakers Efficient UAK Recovery attacks against DECT - Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, University of Luxembourg A year in the life of an Adobe Flash security researcher - Peleus Uhley, Adobe Pwning your grandmother's iPhone - Charley Miller, Independent Security

Re: Five days left to find the oldest data loss incident

2009-05-11 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On 11-May-09, at 7:29 AM, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote: The oldest documented vulnerability in computer security world is password file disclosure vulnerability from 1965, found by Mr. Ryan Russell. Open Security Foundation launched a competition in April to find the oldest documented data

CanSecWest 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline Nov 30, conf. Mar22-26) and PacSec (Nov 4/5) Selections

2009-10-17 Thread Dragos Ruiu
We extend our apologies if you are inconvenienced by multiple copies of this messages. We would like to announce the PacSec 2009 Paper Selections, and the opening of the 2010 CanSecWest Call For Papers. Given the proximity of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver one month before the conference, we

EUSecWest Amsterdam 2010 Call For Papers (short deadline May 5 - conf June 16/17)

2010-04-30 Thread Dragos Ruiu
EUSecWest CALL FOR PAPERS AMSTERDAM, Nederland -- The sixth annual EUSecWest applied technical security conference - where the eminent figures in the international security industry will get together share best practices and technology - will be held in downtown Amsterdam at the the

EUSecWest 2010 MiniCFP (conf Jun 16/17) and PacSec 2010 CFP (conf Nov 10/11, deadline July 30)

2010-05-27 Thread Dragos Ruiu
EUSecWest 2010 MiniCFP (PacSec CFP Follows) One of our presenters was unable to get corporate approval for his travel and cancelled out. As such we are opening up one or two available slots for last minute submissions. We are also offering a referral bounty of a free conference registration for

Final Penultimate last Call for Papers for CanSecWest 2011 (deadline Jan. 17th, conf March 9-11)

2011-01-13 Thread Dragos Ruiu
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Ghandi. Well if Fox's new comedy show Breaking In is any indication, infosec has now entered Ghandi's second stage. http://goo.gl/ZpLDp [youtube] (hat tip to Adam O'Donnell for this humorous find, and

PacSec CFP note, deadline Aug 3; conf Nov 9/10 Tokyo

2011-07-29 Thread Dragos Ruiu
PacSec CALL FOR PAPERS TOKYO, Japan -- To address the increasing importance of information security in Japan, the best known figures in the international security industry will get together with leading Japanese researchers to share best practices and technology. The most significant new

CanSecWest 2012 Mar 7-9; 2nd call for papers, closes next week, Monday.Dec 5 2011

2011-11-30 Thread Dragos Ruiu
So after a dozen years or so organizing conferences, you get the urge to pull levers and try experimenting with things. So this year I sent out the CanSecWest CFP only over Twitter, and G+ publicly. Just curious as to the adoption and information dispersion rate, and some estimate of the

EUSecWest 2012 - Amsterdam, Sept 19/20 featuring Mobile PWN2OWN - CFP Deadline June 15

2012-06-05 Thread Dragos Ruiu
EUSecWest 2012, Amsterdam, September 19/20, Featuring Mobile PWN2OWN CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline June 15 2012 AMSTERDAM, Nederland -- The seventh annual EUSecWest applied technical security conference - where the eminent figures in the international security industry get together share

CanSecWest13 CFP Open Until December 14 2012, Conf March 7-9 2013, Vancouver

2012-12-07 Thread Dragos Ruiu
The CFP is open and a new conference rushes forward. The shorter version: Package up your PII/contact info that we need so we can book flights and figure out visas, put together a summary of who you are and what you want to talk about that is cool new security research, and email