There is an interesting article about NetBSD becoming the new os on the tmobile sidekick. While NetBSD can run on just about any kind of relevant hardware, running NetBSD on the sidekick and painting a nice GUI (with the help of Danger probably) should be lots of fun. As an end result, could this not rank as the most secure mobile device if nothing else?

from alsaher99@hotmail.com

to me
date Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:09 PM
subject Vacation reply
mailed-by col0-omc1-s1.col0.hotmail.com

i’m out of service
plz don’t send any mail again
or i will hack your system

You can’t make this stuff up.. ha. Well, you can, but I didn’t. Really.

I came across an interesting list of famous hackers with information and photos today and I thought I would share them with everyone.

Wozniak, Ritchie, and Mitnick all made the cut

The NATO Parliamentary Website –> www.nato-pa.int was defaced by a Turkish hacker recently.

According to www.nato-pa.int:

“Bringing together members of parliaments throughout the Atlantic Alliance, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly has provided for half a century an essential link between NATO and the parliaments of the NATO nations, helping to build parliamentary and public consensus in support of Alliance policies.”

The server looks like its running Windows 2003 and IIS 6. My guess: SQL Injection, WebDAV exploit, or some other web bug. But something else to think about would be rumors of an IIS 6 0day floating around a while back…

I ran across something interesting today. A friend asked me to send him a certain exe to his email. Not thinking much about it, I composed an email on my gmail, attached the exe, hit send and then seen an error in which basically told me google doesn’t allow exes to be sent through gmail.

Irritating enough, but seemingly familiar, I decided to ‘get smart’ and zip the exe in a folder and send it. Same thing.

!@#$%

I also tried gzipping the archive and sending it.. didn’t work either.

I finally compressed the folder+exe to make a bz2 archive and sent it away. Worked like a charm.

Where was Google attachment filters then!? *grin*

Megacubo 5.0.7 Download & Execute Remote Exploit

JJunior

PHP GD Library Information Leak Exploit

Hamid Ebadi

Destiny Media Player 1.61 “lst file” Local Buffer Overflow Exploit

Encryt3d.M!nd

VMware Remote DoS Exploit

Laurent Gaffie

Konqueror 4.1 XSS & Crash Exploits

staker

Amaya Web Browser

SkD

FreeBSD 6x/7 protosw kernel Local Privledge Escalation Exploit

Don “north” Bailey

Doop CMS CSRF/Upload Shell Remote Exploits
x0r

Ultimate PHP Board

athos

Google Chrome Browser Remote Parameter Injection

Nine:Situations:Group::bellick&strawdog

Internet Explorer 7 XML Buffer Overflow ‘All-In-One’ Exploit

krafty

MS SQL Server Heap Overflow Exploit

Guido Landi

Barracuda Spam Firewall SQL Injection

Marian Ventuneac

CUPS pstopdf Filter Local Exploit

Jon Oberheide

Coolplayer Local Buffer Overflow Exploit

r0ut3r

I’ve been noticing that most of the spam I get (and nearly all that gets through the filters) arrives during the week, not the weekends. Actually, looking at my spam box, it looks like I receive around twice as much on week days than weekend days.

My point being, and I sure there are some good answers: Is spamming a full time job for a lot of spammers, or even a 40 hour a week job? I’d have to say for at least the dedicated ones, it probably is. Or, do they just figure more people check their mail on the weekdays?

Either way, spam sucks.

Metasploit Decloak in back online. Decloak (v2) now identifies the real IP access of a user using a slick combo of “client-side technologies and custom services”. v2 also works regardless of the user’s proxy settings. The only public technology that it cannot get through is a PROPERLY CONFIGURED Tor+Torbutton+Privoxy setup, HDM mentions.

You can read more about it and if you haven’t already, give it a whirl.

This was just too funny not to share. Read carefully and draw your own conclusions, haha.

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I just seen the new advisory for Opera, headlining a ‘memory corruption’ vulnerability that sounds like its triggered by specially crafted html construction, that is gathered from this almost incoherent ‘detailed’ description of the bug:

“Certain HTML constructs affecting an internal heap structure. As a result of a pointer calculation, memory may be corrupted in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code.”

I often wonder when I see advisories like this if the vulnerabilities have been found by fuzzing.

Another bug found in Adobe Flash Player that I also discuss here, found by iSEC, looks also to be found by fuzzing, but more (nearly directly) implied in the advisory.

“iSEC applied targeted fuzzing to the ActionScript 2 virtual machine used by the Adobe Flash player, and identified several issues which could lead to denial of service, information disclosure or code execution when parsing a malicious SWF file. The majority of testing occurred during 120 hours of automated SWF-specific fault injection testing in which several hundred unique control paths were identified that trigger bugs and/or potential vulnerabilities in the Adobe Flash Player. Paths leading to duplicate issues where condensed down to a number of unique problems in the Adobe Flash Player. The primary cause for these vulnerabilities appears to be simple failures in verifying the bounds of compartmentalized structures.”

Now, both of these examples could have been found by other means than fuzzing, but I know every time I see scrupulous advisories like those it just makes me wonder. By the way, IMHO Fuzzing: Brute Force Vulnerability Discovery is a great book and a great read. Kudos to the swift, engineering authors as well.

You can browse a list of fuzzers hosting by PacketStorm to exercise your mind even more.

So what do you think? Have fuzzers, being at the most ‘trivial’ to write in ideal conditions (well documented protocol, continued aggressive latency, etc), taken a strong hold in many security researcher’s work?

This junk keeps slipping through gmail’s spam filters and the best I can say about it is ‘useless’.

Anybody else been getting this kind of crap lately?

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date    Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:02 PM
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I usually get 5-10 of these about once a month, all in the same hour or two.The most ‘useless’ part about it is that it doesn’t affect me, at all, in any way, neither personally or work related.

The flaw discovered by Dan Kaminsky put a forthright scare into the entire internet community — and it should have. This attack, which is trivial in nature, could make the difference between sending all your private data to the secure server across the ocean, or to a happy hacker filling his/her eye balls with goodies.

But now, since everyone was woken up, there are two mainstream, proposed solutions in hopes of ending the insecurity in DNS: DNSSEC and DNSCurve. Which one should you bet your network’s integrity on? Better hope your patched or you might get bailiwicked. Let the enlightenment begin.

DNSSEC, or Domain Name System Security Extensions, is a suite of IETF specifications for securing certain kinds of information in DNS. Recently, lots of companies have been gearing up to implement DNSSEC, as a means of securing DNS on the Internet. One man, that opposes DNSSEC, has written his own code to provide a nicer, more secure solution, and far better than DNSSEC. He calls it DNSCurve.

DNSCurve uses high-speed, high-security elliptic cryptography to improve and secure DNS. Daniel J. Bernstein, the creator of DNSCurve and many other high security servers such as qmail and djbdns servers, doesn’t want DNSSEC implemented, but DNSCurve instead. And it is no question which one is the better choice after looking at the comparisons Bernstein makes between the two now rivals.

Some huge advantages with DNSCurve vs DNSSEC are encrypting DNS requests and responses, not publishing lists of DNS records, much stronger cryptography for detecting forgeries, (some) protection against denial of service attacks, and other improvements.

There is one quick, unrelated issue that I disagree with Mr. Bernstein about. After offering $500 “to the first person to publish a verifiable security hole in the latest version of qmail”, he states: “My offer still stands. Nobody has found any security holes in qmail”. But in 2005, Georgi Guninski found one and has confirmed exploitability on 64 bit platforms with a lot of memory.

Bernstein denied his claim and then stated “In May 2005, Georgi Guninski claimed that some potential 64-bit portability problems allowed a “remote exploit in qmail-smtpd.” This claim is denied. Nobody gives gigabytes of memory to each qmail-smtpd process, so there is no problem with qmail’s assumption that allocated array lengths fit comfortably into 32 bits.”. Now, to me, and I am sure to many other people as well, an exploitable bug in an exploitable bug. Conditions have to sometimes be met and “can be carried too far”, one might put it, but in this case, it is clear that Guninski found at least one exploitable bug in qmail. Game over. No disrespect to Mr. Bernstein or his code; he does have both great code and concepts. On with my main literature.

So, if I were a betting man (and I am), I would gamble on Bernstein’s all around great approach to making DNS safer, more resilient against attacks, and definatly more secure. Hopefully, people will realize money can’t solve all our problems, but the guys that know what they are doing, can, and might just make some things happen pretty soon.

I thought I’d try something different (excuse me if its been done before, oh well). Every week I will be making a list of the top 5 exploits of the week, details about them, etc.

So lets get the ball rolling:

#1 Internet Explorer 7 XML Buffer Overflow Exploit (Vista Target) — This remote beauty executes remote code on a vulnerable (probably still unpatched) Internet Explorer 7 machine running Windows Vista. Coded by muts.

#2 Internet Explorer 7 XML Buffer Overflow Exploit (XP SP3 Target) — Exploits the same bug as above but executes code on a Windows XP SP3 target. Coded by Guido Landi.

#3 XOOPS 2.3.1 Multiple LFI Exploits — XOOPS suffers from a few local file inclusion bugs, and DSecRG has some code for you.

#4 Linux Kernel ATMSVC DoS Exploit — Send a kernel into an infinite loop by locally running this exploit on a vulnerable machine. Code by Jon Oberheide.

#5 phpMyAdmin 3.1.0 XSRF Exploit — Cross site scripting attacks are more dangerous than most developers think. Here is exploit code, just don’t have phpMyAdmin open in another tab! Provided by Michael Brooks.

See you all next week with more. Bug on

Yeah, brute force attacks on SSH is old news. But now, there is something new and interesting about them! Attackers (How did they get so smart!?) are now using ‘advanced’ techniques to make these attacks even more effective:

“Instead of using the same compromised machine to try multiple password combination, the newer attack relies on coordination among multiple botnet clients. Also, instead of throwing this resource at random Secure Shell (SSH) remote admin servers, the assault is targeted at specific servers.”

OH NO! We all must go and protect our servers now!

Or do any or all of these good practices that decent administrators have known about for years…

1) USE STRONG PASSWORDS! (You can bet attackers will have ‘johndoe’ in their wordlist, but not ’00J0hNND0eEe00$’)
2) Firewall all logins via SSH except for authorized IP addresses
3) Run SSH Server on another port besides 22

Some helpful tips for the helpless. Ho, ho, ho unwise system admins.