[Full-disclosure] 2010 Nmap/SecTools.org survey

2010-04-27 Thread Henri Doreau
Hello FD, the Nmap poject is currently conducting a survey to improve Nmap and its companion tools and to update the http://sectools.org website. You can help Nmap by filling out the survey at http://nmap.org/survey Regards -- Henri ___

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Christian Sciberras
Perhaps you haven't noticed, this is Full-Disclosure, which at least, is used to discuss security measures. As such, it is only natural to argue with PCI's possible security flaws. Besides, in a democratic society (where CC do operate as well), you can't force someone to install an anti-virus

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Christian Sciberras
Surely being forced to install an anti-virus only brings in a monopoly? How do I know that PCI Standards writers are getting a nice commission off me installing the anti-virus? (I know they don't, I'm just hypothesizing). You stated it yourself, an anti-virus may not do any difference, it is

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Lyal Collins
Lastly, that is where you are wrong, there is no base starting point companies don't give a shit about proper security measures, they get PCI-certified and all security ends there. That is the freaken problem. Well, when this occurs, they are not compliant = Epic FAIL = wasted dollars. i.e. they

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Christian Sciberras
Why are you saying wasted money? They didn't waste it, they allocated that sum to cater for PCI compliance and they are still PCI compliant. Ie, it is not wasted in the sense that they obtained what they wanted. The point in question is, does PCI obtain what it should be? However, as many already

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Christian Sciberras
In short, you just said that PCI compliance _is_ a waste of time and money. Why else would you protect something which is bound to fail anyway?! This is a lost battle, as I said no one cares about the arguments because these people fall into three categories: -they believe the illusion that PCI

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Christian Sciberras
Where did I say that its a waste of time and money? Here you go: I 100% agree with you about most of the companies seek the paper work and get PCI certified and don't really bother about true security measures, but in the end if a breach is discovered they are the ones who shall get the penalty

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread wilder_jeff Wilder
There is a big difference between being secure and being compliant.If its a company's desire to be compliant, they may never be secure. However, if they strive to be secure, they will always be compliant no mater what framework they are chasing. I agree... money spent on compliance is

[Full-disclosure] Last Mile || InfoWare 2010 [ICCGI, ICWMC, INTERNET, ACCESS] September 20-25, 2010 - Valencia, Spain

2010-04-27 Thread Sandra Sendra
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[Full-disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 2021-2] New spamass-milter packages fix regression

2010-04-27 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - Debian Security Advisory DSA-2021-2 secur...@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/Giuseppe Iuculano April 26, 2010

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Mike Hale
Your comparison doesn't work. It's not A versus B, it's A versus C, with C being Company does nothing because it can't afford a thorough security program. On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Michel Messerschmidt li...@michel-messerschmidt.de wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 06:02:48AM -0700, Shaqe

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Lyal Collins
Has everyone on this list read the PCI DSS requirements? They are freely available, at www.pcisecuritystandards.org. AV is about 4 requirements out of over 230 requirements, covering secure coding/development, patching, network security, hardening systems, least privilege, robust authenticaiton,

[Full-disclosure] PoC for ZDI-10-078

2010-04-27 Thread tu canal amigo
# Exploit Title: ZDI-10-078: NovellZENworks Configuration Management UploadServlet Remote Code Execution Vulnerability # Date: 2009-04-26 # Author: tucanalamigo http://tucanalamigo.blogspot.com # Software Link: http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/configurationmanagement/ # Version: 10.2 #

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Shaqe Wan
Pieter, I somehow agree with you that using an AV is not always necessary if you have implemented a good protection for your environment, but I mean in my previous comments that using an AV is a requirement of PCI, it is forced on us. If you deal with CC then you need to get compliant and

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Shaqe Wan
Hola, The problem is not weather they are educated against other standards or policies or not, the problem is that without this compliance you can't work with CC !!! Its something that is enforced on you ! BTW: why don't people discuss what is the points missing in the PCI Compliance better

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Shaqe Wan
Pieter, I somehow agree with you that using an AV is not always necessary if you have implemented a good protection for your environment, but I mean in my previous comments that using an AV is a requirement of PCI, it is forced on us. If you deal with CC then you need to get compliant and that

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Shaqe Wan
Michel, Sorry, I didn't understand your first question! Regarding your 2nd question. You won't get compliant if you update your AV on a annually basis. You shall fail the quarter check done by an QSA(s). So first check is not available. For me if the companies staff is well educated and a we

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Shaqe Wan
Yep, your right. The auditors nowadays even ask for an AV on a *n?x OS (what a shame) !!! From: Digital X digital...@gmail.com To: Tracy Reed tr...@ultraviolet.org; Nick FitzGerald n...@virus-l.demon.co.uk Cc: Full-disclosure full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk

Re: [Full-disclosure] 2010 Nmap/SecTools.org survey

2010-04-27 Thread Shaqe Wan
Great survey enjoyed filling it :) With you good luck. Regards, From: Henri Doreau henri.dor...@gmail.com To: Full disclosure full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk Sent: Tue, April 27, 2010 9:32:00 AM Subject: [Full-disclosure] 2010 Nmap/SecTools.org survey

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Shaqe Wan
Hi, I don't actually beleive there is a democratic society. No such thing exists. If it does? Then ask the organizations who made the compliance requirements drop them and make audits based on some other measure that you believe is more secure and has less flaws in it. Finally, regarding the

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Shaqe Wan
You won't know not now, not ever. Maybe they do get a commission for your AV installation, who knows ! But maybe they think it is something that everybody needs so the force it. To get to know the true answer, we need to sit down with the guys who wrote the requirements and brainstorm with them

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Shaqe Wan
FYI, The Evolution of PCI DSS http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=9202 Guys, they are evolving, so be calm :) From: Christian Sciberras uuf6...@gmail.com To: Shaqe Wan sh...@yahoo.com Cc: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk Sent: Tue, April 27, 2010

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Honer, Lance
What's your choice: Company A installs an anti-virus and updates it regularly (BTW regularly includes once a year). Company B has a recovery concept, incident response team, vulnerability monitoring, patch management, NIDS, security training but no anti-virus. You do realize that PCI says

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Shaqe Wan
Where did I say that its a waste of time and money? Hmmm, strange !!! BTW: I argued a lot with my managers about the PCI stuff, but no one gives you an ear, so let me be categorized in category #2 of yours :D From: Christian Sciberras uuf6...@gmail.com To:

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Shaqe Wan
Christian, I said most not all :) And yes for me I don't give the f*ck about it, as long as there is no one that hears you. Do I have to jump from a tower so they see what I am stating? Cheers From: Christian Sciberras uuf6...@gmail.com To: Shaqe Wan

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Christian Sciberras
Has everyone on this list read the PCI DSS requirements? They are freely available, at www.pcisecuritystandards.org. Were you even following the thread? There's been at least 4 times were different people cited different parts of the standard. But I would suppose that there's always the

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Christian Sciberras
Nice way of reading whatever feels right to you. Perhaps you'd have better read what I wrote a few lines before that? On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Mike Hale eyeronic.des...@gmail.comwrote: -they are arguing for the fun of it without any real arguments (why else prove me right on my

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Christian Sciberras
based on your own admission On who's admission? Perhaps you should bother to cite sources next time? And, how is quoting me in a different argument your point? On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Mike Hale eyeronic.des...@gmail.comwrote: Point is, you're arguing for the sake of arguing, as

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Christian Sciberras
My point isn't about a particular section, nor whether the amount of experience I have in PCI DSS compliance (which is next to novice). The point is, what s PCI aiming at? Real security, or just a way companies can excuse their incompetence by citing full PCI compliance? Which reminds me, it

[Full-disclosure] XSS in Drupal Better Formats Module

2010-04-27 Thread Justin C. Klein Keane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Description of Vulnerability: - - Drupal (http://drupal.org) is a robust content management system (CMS) written in PHP and MySQL. The Drupal Better Formats module (http://drupal.org/project/better_formats) contains a

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Mike Hale
-they are arguing for the fun of it without any real arguments (why else prove me right on my arguments and later on deny it?) So you fall into this category? On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Christian Sciberras uuf6...@gmail.comwrote: In short, you just said that PCI compliance _is_ a waste of

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Mike Hale
Point is, you're arguing for the sake of arguing, as you have no understanding what PCI is, based on your own admission. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Christian Sciberras uuf6...@gmail.comwrote: Nice way of reading whatever feels right to you. Perhaps you'd have better read what I wrote a

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Mike Hale
Actually, you're right. You're not the one who said that, I apologize. But I maintain that you're arguing over something that you don't understand. You took one section (the anti-virus one) and got your panties in a bunch over a security standard that says you *should* run anti-virus. You

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Mike Hale
The point is, what s PCI aiming at? It's aiming for a basic level of security among companies that process credit cards. Nothing more. You have to remember that PCI didn't come about in a vacuum. It was created to solve a specific problem that the major credit cards faced in regards to the

Re: [Full-disclosure] XSS in Drupal Better Formats Module

2010-04-27 Thread Henri Salo
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:07:17 -0400 Justin C. Klein Keane jus...@madirish.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Description of Vulnerability: - - Drupal (http://drupal.org) is a robust content management system (CMS) written in PHP and MySQL.

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Christian Sciberras
Haven't had my coffee yet... ;) I thought so, that would explain everything. :) Cheers, On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Mike Hale eyeronic.des...@gmail.comwrote: The point is, what s PCI aiming at? It's aiming for a basic level of security among companies that process credit cards.

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Michael Holstein
Besides, in a democratic society (where CC do operate as well), you can't force someone to install an anti-virus just because _you_ think it is secure. This isn't a democracy .. it's a business. You want to process credit cards in-house, you need to comply with the PCI standards. It

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Michael Holstein
My point isn't about a particular section, nor whether the amount of experience I have in PCI DSS compliance (which is next to novice). So we can agree that you're arguing about something with which you have no experience? The point is, what s PCI aiming at? It's on the first

[Full-disclosure] Fun with FORTIFY_SOURCE

2010-04-27 Thread Dan Rosenberg
I wanted to share a neat little trick I discovered while playing with gcc's FORTIFY_SOURCE feature. For those who don't know, this feature attempts to prevent exploitation of a subset of buffer overflows by inserting a set of checks at compile-time, including stack canaries for some functions.

Re: [Full-disclosure] XSS in Drupal Better Formats Module

2010-04-27 Thread Justin C. Klein Keane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I did not apply for a CVE identifier because there are folks who would argue that the conditions described below do not qualify as a vulnerability. I must confess I'm ignorant of the CVE guidelines surrounding such a situation. Any further

Re: [Full-disclosure] XSS in Drupal Better Formats Module

2010-04-27 Thread Larry Seltzer
You need admin privileges for it. It's not a vulnerability, it's a feature. -Original Message- From: full-disclosure-boun...@lists.grok.org.uk [mailto:full-disclosure-boun...@lists.grok.org.uk] On Behalf Of Justin C. Klein Keane Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:07 PM To:

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:48:11 EDT, Michael Holstein said: You've already stated in a prior email that you have no involvement with PCI implementation on either side of the fence (hell no, was your answer, I believe) .. so I don't see where you're really qualified to make a categorical

[Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread J Roger
If a business wants to accept credit cards as a means of payment (based on volume) then part of their agreement is that they must undergo compliance to a standard implemented by the industry PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliances is what people HAVE to do, as in FORCED to do whether they

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread J Roger
If a business wants to accept credit cards as a means of payment (based on volume) then part of their agreement is that they must undergo compliance to a standard implemented by the industry PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliances is what people HAVE to do, as in FORCED to do whether they

Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Tuesday, April 27, 2010 13:37:39 -0700 J Roger securityho...@gmail.com wrote: Is PCI Compliance a giant bluff from VISA? Have any large companies ever been forced to stop processing CCs because they failed to be PCI compliant? They don't force you to stop processing. They fine you.

[Full-disclosure] redefining research: vulnerability journalism

2010-04-27 Thread J Roger
Discovered a security flaw in a production system you had no authority or permission to audit? Afraid to disclose the information for fear of prosecution? Don't stress too much, you have some protection if you redefine yourself as a vulnerability journalist According to a recent Wired article on

[Full-disclosure] go public to avoid jail

2010-04-27 Thread J Roger
An important lesson from childhood, sharing, could help keep you out of jail. According to the following (dated) Wired article, http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/stephen-watt/ Stephen Watt got screwed because he supplied his friend with a software tool he wrote and his friend used it to