Re: [Full-Disclosure] Teen hacker controls ebay

2004-09-08 Thread noddie_x
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Gaurang Pandya wrote: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18288 Says, a teen hacker he had managed to become the new owner of eBay.de. can any one tell me what do they mean by this..did he actually changed ip address at DNS or its DNS Cache poisioning or something

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Empirical data surrounding guards and firewalls.

2004-09-08 Thread Byron L. Sonne
That depends how you define sentience, but yes, humans often exhibit more, but only where they know to do so. The same is true of a well designed computer program. Ah, no. Computer programs (well designed or otherwise) are not, and have never been, sentient. I'll go so far as to state that

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Teen hacker controls ebay

2004-09-08 Thread Jeffrey Denton
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 21:13:45 -0700 (PDT), Gaurang Pandya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18288 Says, a teen hacker he had managed to become the new owner of eBay.de. can any one tell me what do they mean by this..did he actually changed ip address at DNS or

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Teen hacker controls ebay

2004-09-08 Thread Lothar Kimmeringer
Gaurang Pandya wrote: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18288 Says, a teen hacker he had managed to become the new owner of eBay.de. can any one tell me what do they mean by this..did he actually changed ip address at DNS or its DNS Cache poisioning or something else?? According to german

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Teen hacker controls ebay

2004-09-08 Thread Johannes Bretscher
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 06:47:25AM +0200, noddie_x wrote: On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Gaurang Pandya wrote: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18288 Says, a teen hacker he had managed to become the new owner of eBay.de. can any one tell me what do they mean by this..did he actually changed

Re: [Full-Disclosure] iDEFENSE Security Advisory 08.13.04: Adobe Acrobat/Acrobat Reader ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

2004-09-08 Thread list
Hi, customer service mailbox wrote: Adobe Acrobat/Acrobat Reader ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability ---snip--- for all using MS windows who want to upgrade their reader to 6.0.2 (latest) using software distribution: There's a patch file from adobe that can be found here

[Full-Disclosure] [ GLSA 200409-12 ] ImageMagick, imlib, imlib2: BMP decoding buffer overflows

2004-09-08 Thread Thierry Carrez
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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Teen hacker controls ebay

2004-09-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Gaurang Pandya: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18288 Says, a teen hacker he had managed to become the new owner of eBay.de. can any one tell me what do they mean by this..did he actually changed ip address at DNS or its DNS Cache poisioning or something else?? The delegation was

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Teen hacker controls ebay

2004-09-08 Thread Nick FitzGerald
Jeffrey Denton wrote: The article says the teen requested changes to the DNS servers for serveral sites. $ whois -h whois.opensrs.net. ebay.de [snip] Registration Service Provider: DBMS VeriSign, [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip Doh. Issuing code-signing certs in Microsoft's name to

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Teen hacker controls ebay

2004-09-08 Thread Alexander Bochmann
...on Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:17:59AM +1200, Nick FitzGerald wrote: Jeffrey Denton wrote: $ whois -h whois.opensrs.net. ebay.de Registration Service Provider: DBMS VeriSign, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Issuing code-signing certs in Microsoft's name to non-MS folk. Reassiging a major eBay

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Teen hacker controls ebay

2004-09-08 Thread Sean Crawford
Nick FitzGerald wrote--- ---Issuing code-signing certs in Microsoft's name to non-MS folk. ---Reassiging a major eBay domain to Joe Schmoe just because he filled in ---a web form. --- Is there anything in common here apart from incompetence and obvious --- lack of trustworthiness of this

Re: [Full-Disclosure] win2kup2date.exe ?

2004-09-08 Thread Bart . Lansing
_ Massive snips : Nick, James T, et al wrote much that I've snipped... I apologise that this message of mine was not as clear as it should have been. Thank you for pointing it out to me. And you missed the point of what you perceived as my anger -- that's just one of my common

Re: [Full-Disclosure] win2kup2date.exe ?

2004-09-08 Thread Bugtraq Security Systems
Nick, You're a moron, and a fake moron at that. If you had the clue god gave the average scriptkiddie, you'd kill yourself in shame at your own postings. Cheers, BUGTRAQ Security Systems If Nick FitzGerald had a brain cell for every bug we tracked, he'd be smart and not an arrogant no-nothing

Re: [Full-Disclosure] win2kup2date.exe ?

2004-09-08 Thread Barry Fitzgerald
Bugtraq Security Systems wrote: Nick, You're a moron, and a fake moron at that. If you had the clue god gave the average scriptkiddie, you'd kill yourself in shame at your own postings. Cheers, BUGTRAQ Security Systems If Nick FitzGerald had a brain cell for every bug we tracked, he'd be smart and

Re: [Full-Disclosure] win2kup2date.exe ?

2004-09-08 Thread Über GuidoZ
Agreed. I was the one who possibly started this with my innocent comment of send what you have to me and I'll see what I can figure out. It was meant to be a helping hand and nothing more... sincerely. I would expect anyone who understands the basics of the Internet to be able to track down my

[Full-Disclosure] [ GLSA 200409-13 ] LHa: Multiple vulnerabilities

2004-09-08 Thread Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: open telnet port

2004-09-08 Thread Steve Kudlak
This sort of solution is like when goes to the doctor and says "It hurts when I do this..." and one does a common normal hand gesture and the doctor's response is "well don't do that..." This is kind a response of that is easy for one person to make and it really never solves the problem.

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Empirical data surrounding guards and firewalls.

2004-09-08 Thread Byron L. Sonne
First off, it bears remembering that I said 'computer programs' not 'artificial organisms'. You clearly don't know very much about AI, or sentience. You clearly were unable to exercise understanding of the definition of sentience. On the contrary! I have defined sentience and can therefore