Yeah, but excel prompts about this stuff so much that most people
would just click "ok".
Also links to external images in emails or docs is a great way to pull
this off.
-- Allen Deryke
On Sep 21, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Adrian Crenshaw <[email protected]>
wrote:
But would that illicit a warning?
Adrian
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Dimitrios Kapsalis <[email protected]
> wrote:
The only way I can think of this occuring in a word doc is to write
a macro.
The macro can just ping your box, this should be enough to get the IP.
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Andrew Ellis
<[email protected]> wrote:
You could add a tab to firefox's default tabs (the ones it loads on a
new session) that points to a webserver you control. Eventually, the
stolen laptop's new user will open firefox anew and you'll have the
new IP. Obviously if the person stealing your box mounts the drive
rather than logging in, this won't help.
-andrew
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Adrian Crenshaw <[email protected]
> wrote:
> I recently had a conversation with an author about webbugs, and it
brought
> another idea to mind. I seem to remember John Strand saying
something about
> Val Smith doing something with detecting insider threats by
leaking a
> document and seeing who opens it. (sorry I can't remember more).
>
> Here is the question, anyone know how to make a doc/docx/pdf load
something
> from an external site so you can at least find the ip of someone
who opened
> the document?
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
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