Re: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread John Galt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, bb wrote: If he has fulfilled all the obligation of his sentence, whats wrong with him being allowed to seek gainful employment that plays to his skills? He hasn't even been sentenced yet, or in fact tried... However, from the

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Gregory A. Gilliss
Mr. Thomas, Oh, do shut up! Three words: Robert Morris Junior! -- Greg On or about 2004.09.20 11:21:23 +, Feher Tamas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Hello, The german IT security company Securepoint has hired Sven Jaschan, who wrote and spread the Sasser Internet worm, which caused

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Sick of stupid analogies

2004-09-21 Thread listbot
Using slashdot memes to criticize farking analogies? Your objection to using analogies may be credible if you can explain your point without slashdotting fark analogies. Date: Monday, September 20, 2004 4:44 PM To: full-disclosure [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Stryc9 _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

[Full-Disclosure] Re: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Peter Bruderer
All the guys from @stake, securityfocus, fatelabs What do you know about their past? Look at all the famous hacker sites 10 years ago. They are all security consultants now. If your 15 year old son steals $50 out of your purse, do you shoot him? Ok. It's not much. Do you shoot him if it

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread ktabic
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 15:43 -0400, Barry Fitzgerald wrote: ktabic wrote: Well, I vaguely recall laws that state that a convicted criminal isn't allowed to profit from his crime, even after he has served his sentence. This does, however, sound like he is profiting from his crime. Think:

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm -just a thought-

2004-09-21 Thread Frank de Wit
the best legal hackers (not me) came from 'the scene' and are still active there... the smartest legal hackers team up with 'crackers' and learn the trics from them fast (the shit is that the trics change every day :-) on the other hand, I would not hire a burglar to put new locks on my doors;

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires...

2004-09-21 Thread ktabic
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 14:57 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Think of this not so much as criminal vs. noncriminal but in warfare terms. Security defenders have to design fortifications to keep out attackers. If it is warfare, it isn't warfare in the sense you are putting forward. There are no

[Full-Disclosure] Re: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Syke
Dear Peter, You mean all the would-be blackhats-turned-sellouts? Yea, sure, SecurityFocus spawned such elitists as BlueBoar(you know we love you), Aleph1(we love you too sweetums), etc, etc. Who can forget our pals from f8Labs, gotta love that 'Loki' guy! In all seriousness though(I know it's

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Pavel Kankovsky
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Vincent Archer wrote: He has also demonstrated his absolute lack of ethical restraint, [...] This makes him a perfect employee for any modern business because he won't make trouble when his employer lies to its customers and sells crappy products and services to them. :P

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires...

2004-09-21 Thread Charles Heselton
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:57:13 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Think of this not so much as criminal vs. noncriminal but in warfare terms. Security defenders have to design fortifications to keep out attackers. If I am trying to build field fortifications and my forces have

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread VX Dude
Note, this isn't addressed to the admin's or virus helpdesk folks, but to the whitehats trying to sell another product or service and try to pretend that they did it out of the good of the community. === Did everyone just sober up from defcon

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread ktabic
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 09:38 -0400, stilist wrote: What you're forgetting is the fact that the kid probably has more skills than most of the people in the industry. He may be a criminal, but he's a darn good person to have working on your side. Really? What about his abilites is so impressive?

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread VeNoMouS
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RE: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the authorof Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Felipe Angoitia
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 09:38 -0400, stilist wrote: I'm just intrested in knowing what makes him so special to most of the people in the industry. He appears on tv ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter:

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread ktabic
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 11:11 -0700, Harlan Carvey wrote: Todd...what on earth makes you think they did not? This is not new behavior...at all. Exactly. If you don't really believe that the movie Catch me if you can was based on a true story, check out this site:

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the authorof Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread James Tucker
I'm just intrested in knowing what makes him so special to most of the people in the industry. His CV contains real experience. The HR manager isn't sure what it all means. He appears on tv The shareholders on the other hand love the guy, we know who he is, and we (think we) know he's

[Full-Disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 551-1] New lukemftpd packages fix arbitrary code execution

2004-09-21 Thread debian-security-announce
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 551-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze September 21st, 2004

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Fred Newtz
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 05:08 -0700, Harlan Carvey wrote: The other is a virus writer who used a flaw developed by someone else, and propagated by a meathod that has been used countless times before, and really introduced nothing new. So lets say someone did not turn him in and he never got

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread jamie fisher
Dear ktabic, Piss off and die plz. Tnx! Bye. (Hate to spam the rest of the list but just deal with this retards inane comments any longer).ktabic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 05:08 -0700, Harlan Carvey wrote: It's pretty clear, then, how this particular example compares to the

[Full-Disclosure] A correction to UNIRAS ALERT - 34/04

2004-09-21 Thread Ulf Härnhammar
- Forwarded message from Ulf Härnhammar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:24:39 +0200 From: Ulf Härnhammar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: Ulf Härnhammar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: A correction to UNIRAS ALERT - 34/04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I think this

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread ph0enix
uhm... are we getting a little bit too excited? jamie fisher wrote: Dear ktabic, Piss off and die plz. Tnx! Bye. (Hate to spam the rest of the list but just deal with this retards inane comments any longer). ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Barry Fitzgerald
Larry Seltzer wrote: If you don't really believe that the movie Catch me if you can was based on a true story, check out this site: http://www.abagnale.com/index2.asp I don't want to put words in anyone's mouth, but I hope we're not comparing a genius like Abagnale to vandal like Jaschan,

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Jim Race
Nick Jacobsen wrote: Does it not strike anyone that there is a disturbing trend in malicious hackers (yes, yes, I know, they are not hackers if they are malicious, so call em whatever you want) getting hired to security firms, mainly because the hacker gets media attention? It is honestly like

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Larry Seltzer
He wrote a worm. Big freaking deal. Yeah, very big freaking deal. He loosed an attack he had good reason to believe would do damage to innumerable people all over the world. He belongs in jail and for a long time, if only to send a message that such behavior is wrong. And anyone who trusts

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Barry Fitzgerald
ktabic wrote: - Have you ever exceeded 20 mph above the speed limit? If so, does that make you incapable of driving a big rig truck? If so, I think we should probably be very wary of our use of the roads. It's much more difficult to get a commercial license if you've been caught

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Barry Fitzgerald
ktabic wrote: No, no need to spell it out any clearer. You made my point. Mr. Abagnale is an expert in and on the finacial institusions and fraud, who (in return for a reduced sentence) provided that immense knowledge to the industry and has even worked towards getting the industry to adopt

[Full-Disclosure] Broadcast crash in Popmessenger 1.60 (before 20 Sep 2004)

2004-09-21 Thread Luigi Auriemma
### Luigi Auriemma Application: PopMessenger http://www.leadmind.com Versions: = 1.60 (before 20 Sep 2004) Platforms:Windows Bug: crash Risk: medium

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Barry Fitzgerald
Larry Seltzer wrote: He wrote a worm. Big freaking deal. Yeah, very big freaking deal. He loosed an attack he had good reason to believe would do damage to innumerable people all over the world. He belongs in jail and for a long time, if only to send a message that such behavior is

[Full-Disclosure] Secure IA and data transfer on Solaris 2.5.1

2004-09-21 Thread Stephen Taylor
I am a Security Engineer with beginner UNIX knowledge. I need to support secure process to process communications on Solaris 2.5.1 servers and want a COTS product or some easy solution. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I am stuck with 2.5.1 at least until year end. Clients are mostly

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Jonathan Rickman
Saying that no teenager can be reformed is like saying you can't change your mind about what to eat for dinner. I have over 13 convictions and have been in prison as well as spent more than my fair share of time in county jails. However, that has been 10 years now and I am integrated

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Matthias Andree
Feher Tamas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The german IT security company Securepoint has hired Sven Jaschan, who wrote and spread the Sasser Internet worm, which caused widespread and costly damages to legions of Windows computers. I don't know about the names of the company and the alleged

[Full-Disclosure] OpenBSD radius authentication vulnerability

2004-09-21 Thread E . Bos
Title: OpenBSD radius authentication vulnerability Summary:Authentication can be bypassed when radius-authentication is used on OpenBSD. Impact: Unauthorized access to the system Software: OpenBSD 3.2 and OpenBSD 3.5 confirmed vulnerable. Workarounds:

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Secure IA and data transfer on Solaris 2.5.1

2004-09-21 Thread Kyle Maxwell
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:40:43 -0400, Stephen Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a Security Engineer with beginner UNIX knowledge. I need to support secure process to process communications on Solaris 2.5.1 servers and want a COTS product or some easy solution. Can anyone point me in the right

[Full-Disclosure] Lots of traffic on port 1472 from explorer

2004-09-21 Thread Giuseppe Milicia
Hi guys, from a home computer I'm seeing lots of traffic generated from explorer on port 1472 towards the microsoft-ds port, typically on IP addresses starting with 35.xx.xx.xx It looks like a worm but I could not find any references around and Trend Micro detects nothing. Also there is some

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread pingywon MCSE
Barry, are you related to Nick by any chance? ~pingywon MCSE http://www.pingywon.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Fitzgerald Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 14:09 To: Larry Seltzer Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Barry Fitzgerald
pingywon MCSE wrote: Barry, are you related to Nick by any chance? Not to my knowledge. -Barry ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Lots of traffic on port 1472 from explorer

2004-09-21 Thread Brent Colflesh
Keylogger? http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/k/klp32.asp Regards, Brent -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Giuseppe Milicia Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 3:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Full-Disclosure] Lots of traffic on port 1472

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Henrik Persson
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 19:29, Larry Seltzer wrote: He wrote a worm. Big freaking deal. Yeah, very big freaking deal. He loosed an attack he had good reason to believe would do damage to innumerable people all over the world. He belongs in jail and for a long time, if only to send a message

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Secure IA and data transfer on Solaris 2.5.1

2004-09-21 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:40:43 EDT, Stephen Taylor said: I am a Security Engineer with beginner UNIX knowledge. I need to support secure process to process communications on Solaris 2.5.1 servers and want a COTS product or some easy solution. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I am

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Lots of traffic on port 1472 from explorer

2004-09-21 Thread Sottile, Michael
klp is a keylogger. you probably have some (oak?) variant of it. follow this link to learn more about it/get rid of it... http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/k/klp32.asp regards, ~michael -Original Message- From: Giuseppe Milicia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 21,

[Full-Disclosure] [ GLSA 200409-28 ] GTK+ 2, gdk-pixbuf: Multiple image decoding vulnerabilities

2004-09-21 Thread Thierry Carrez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200409-28 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Vulnerability in IBM Windows XP: default hidden Administrator account allows local Administrator access

2004-09-21 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:34:09 CDT, Michael Wilson, Contractor said: IBM had decided that the average user (of their systems) cannot be trusted with even knowing about their systems administrative access, much less the password. The funny/sad part is that, in general, IBM is right on this

[Full-Disclosure] Control EDX/EAX in JPG Heap Overflow (MS04-028)

2004-09-21 Thread Elia Florio
Hi list, I'm tryin' to study Heap Overflow mentioned by MS04-028 in GDIPLUS.DLL library. After some test, I've found that the position of dword able to control EDX register (as Nick D. said) is on the5th DWORD, counting after the malformed "FFFE" header. A malformed JPEG header looks

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Lots of traffic on port 1472 from explorer

2004-09-21 Thread Giuseppe Milicia
Guys, thanks a lot for the tips, indeed there was a KLP keylogger. I removed it, but it seems that something else is amiss, I still see lots of traffic from explorer.exe on the 1472 port. from a home computer I'm seeing lots of traffic generated from explorer on port 1472 towards the

[Full-Disclosure] Pinnacle ShowCenter Skin Denial of Service

2004-09-21 Thread Marc Ruef
Dear ladies and gentlemen, I am a proud user of the Pinnacle ShowCenter 1.51. When I was playing around with the system, it seems I have found a denial of service attack against the web interface. First I did manually a HTTP GET request that selects a non-existent skin:

[Full-Disclosure] RE: [Owasp-dotnet] Re: (Asp.Net Full Trust Vulnerabilities) RE: Apache VS IIS Security model question

2004-09-21 Thread Dinis Cruz
Hello Ken, Sorry for the delay in responding to your email, but I am currently very busy. I originally wanted to respond to your questions via an article (since that would allow me to present my arguments in a better format), but since I don't have time to do it now, I will (for now) just

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Lots of traffic on port 1472 from explorer

2004-09-21 Thread Harlan Carvey
I removed it, but it seems that something else is amiss, I still see lots of traffic from explorer.exe on the 1472 port. Have you captured any of this traffic? The traffic is indeed coming from a system I have control of, I still have no dumps though. I can see nothing worrying apart

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Lots of traffic on port 1472 from explorer

2004-09-21 Thread GuidoZ
Hello Giuseppe, at first glance it sounds like a keylogger, though it could be anything. Are you able to locate that file on your system? If so, try getting the properties of it and see what information is available under the Version tab. Also, you can try opening it up in Notepad to see what you

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Brad Griffin
Do you honestly expect any right thinking person to disagree? This practice is literally no different than a local police force hiring convicted felons on as officers because they have a deep understanding of the criminal mind. Bad analogy again. If the courts had hired him to secure their

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Ron DuFresne
cool, another proponent of hiring criminals for security, might as well have reduced it to two words, Kevin Mitnick, at least then folks would have gotten a chuckle out of your reply! gryn. If we are going to just end up hiring these common criminals, why even try them in court? We might as

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Lots of traffic on port 1472 from explorer

2004-09-21 Thread Manohar G Singh
I know this may sound silly, but the last time this happened to me; I checked up and found my p2p client going overactive. Harlan Carvey wrote: I removed it, but it seems that something else is amiss, I still see lots of traffic from explorer.exe on the 1472 port. Have you captured any of

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Brad Griffin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Jacobsen Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 12:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm Does it not strike anyone that there

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Brad Griffin
C'mon Larry, you and I know that your comments below were made purely for flame value. 'He loosed an attack he had good reason to believe would do damage to innumerable people...' You're a journalist...no, you're an *editor*. Your statement above is far too general to be of any substance.

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread Ron DuFresne
ahh, yes, but trust is a major component of this business. would you hire the person that sole all your valuables from your home to guard it for you? would you really trust them if you were ignorant enough to do so? Thanks, Ron DuFresne On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Brad Griffin wrote:

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

2004-09-21 Thread mis
as someone who often works as an expert in trials involving computer fraud and abuse, i've developed opinions in this area, and at the risk of stating the obvious and making this discussion even more tedious, i'll voice some of them now, with your indulgence. i have seen people convicted who

[Full-Disclosure] Control EDX/EAX in JPG Heap Overflow (MS04-028)

2004-09-21 Thread Anonymous User
Dear Italian Elf, You wrote: In this point we can control the value of EDX (it's overwritten by 0x43434343 dword inside JPEG header), but it's difficult escape from the heap and take the full control on execution. I also have difficulty escape from the heap. Maybe we can do lunch some