well placed splog network can reach millions of users in a couple of hours.
On 2/22/07, Michal Zalewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, pdp (architect) wrote: > > > This vulnerability is cute but not very useful mainly because a lot of > > social engineering is required. > > Well, very little trickery is required - having a person bookmark an > interesting page and then reopen it later on, while the browser is still > on its start page (or just about any other high-profile site), isn't that > unusual, and does not rely on an improbable set of circumstances, or the > user being particularly timid. > > This problem is not that significant for a different reason - to affect a > small percentage of population, you'd need to invest some serious effort > into providing content and PR for the attack site. Spending several days > to steal GMail cookies from 1000 users is a waste of time when you can get > 10000 rooted boxes in hours with a trojan horse e-mail. > > So, yeah. > > /mz > -- pdp (architect) | petko d. petkov http://www.gnucitizen.org _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
