Lol. Everyone keeps forgetting the social engineering aspects of utilizing exploits. Especially if someone is using AntiVirus 2011 and has a google wave account.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:10 PM, <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:01:36 CST, Rohit Patnaik said: > > Yeah, no kidding. Surprise! Untrusted files can be malicious. If you > > accept files from those whom you do not trust, whether its via e-mail, > > instant message, Google Wave, or physical media, you well and truly > deserve > > the virus that'll eventually infect your machine. > > Let's see.. *HOW* many years ago did we first see e-mail based viruses that > depended on people opening them because they came from people they already > knew? 'CHRISTMA EXEC' in 1984 comes to mind. > > The problem here is that Google Wave is for *collaboration* - which means > that you're communicating with people you already know, and presumably > trust to some degree or other. "Hey Joe, look at this PDF and tell me > what you think" is something reasonable when the request comes from > somebody > who Joe knows and who has sent Joe PDF's in the past. > > I guarantee that if every time you receive a document that appears to be > from > your boss, you call back and ask if they really intended to send a document > or > if it's a virus, your boss will get very cranky with you very fast. > > Let's look at that original advisory again: > > >> An attacker could upload his malware to a wave and share it to his > >> Google Wave contacts. > > Now change that to "An attacker could trick/pwn some poor victim into > uploading > the malware to a wave...." Hilarity ensues. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >
_______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
