Re: [Full-disclosure] The truth about Rob Levin aka Liloofirc.freenode.net

2006-09-25 Thread Tonnerre Lombard
Salut, On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 20:51 +0200, Diman Todorov wrote: snip [20:48] -LoRez- [Global Notice] Hi all. Some of you may not have heard the news that Rob Levin, known to most as Freenode's head of staff lilo, passed away on the 16th following a car accident on the 12th.

[Full-disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 1183-1] New Linux 2.4.27 packages fix several vulnerabilities

2006-09-25 Thread Martin Schulze
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1183-1[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Dann Frazier September 25th, 2006

[Full-disclosure] [USN-352-1] Thunderbird vulnerabilities

2006-09-25 Thread Martin Pitt
=== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-352-1 September 25, 2006 mozilla-thunderbird vulnerabilities CVE-2006-4253, CVE-2006-4340, CVE-2006-4565, CVE-2006-4566, CVE-2006-4567, CVE-2006-4570, CVE-2006-4571

[Full-disclosure] Typo3 v4.x: XSS in extension Indexed Search v2.9.0

2006-09-25 Thread Moritz Naumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There's a XSS issue in the 'Indexed search' extension 2.9.0 for Typo3. This extension is part of a default Typo3 4.0.x installlation. Typo3 4.0.2 fixes it. http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-20060911-1/ Credits go to Mr.

[Full-disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 1184-1] New Linux 2.6.8 packages fix several vulnerabilities

2006-09-25 Thread Martin Schulze
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1184-1[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Dann Frazier September 25th, 2006

[Full-disclosure] Could InfoSec be Worse than Death?

2006-09-25 Thread Kenneth F. Belva
[From: http://www.bloginfosec.com] Our current way of viewing information security is loss prevention. It is an insurance model. And, although insurance is useful and necessary, senior managers are not likely to spend one dollar more than necessary to obtain the needed protection. After all,

Re: [Full-disclosure] Could InfoSec be Worse than Death?

2006-09-25 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, September 25, 2006 08:05:10 -0400 Kenneth F. Belva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] There is an alternative: Virtual Trust(2) as an information security model. According to the Virtual Trust model, security actually creates business and generates revenue. Do present day

Re: [Full-disclosure] Could InfoSec be Worse than Death?

2006-09-25 Thread Benjamin Robson
Ken, I think your premise is based on a couple of pieces of flawed thinking. Firstly, your statement, After all, information security doesn’t make money–it only spends. in my experience is actually incorrect. An effective information security outcome actually will save a company a

[Full-disclosure] Could InfoSec be Worse than Death?

2006-09-25 Thread Kenneth F. Belva
Paul, Thanks for your comments. Unless you can demonstrate concrete revenue generationg directly attributable to security, I don't think you can overcome that perception (and loss avoidance through trust building does not generate revenue.) I believe the purpose of the paper is to move away

Re: [Full-disclosure] Could InfoSec be Worse than Death?

2006-09-25 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, September 25, 2006 11:30:36 -0400 Kenneth F. Belva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, Thanks for your comments. Unless you can demonstrate concrete revenue generationg directly attributable to security, I don't think you can overcome that perception (and loss avoidance through

Re: [Full-disclosure] ZERT patch [was: 0day for IE (Disabling Javascript no longer a fix)]

2006-09-25 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Jesper's Blog : More options on protecting against recent IE vulnerabilities on a domain: http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2006/09/22/More-options-on-protecting-against-the-VML-vulnerability-on-a-domain.aspx I like that option better. Leaves me supported and honestly I've not

Re: [Full-disclosure] ZERT patch [was: 0day for IE (Disabling Javascript no longer a fix)]

2006-09-25 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
A patch ..not The patch. There's a difference.. third party patches makes me unsupported. This too has to be weighed when deciding risk factors. Gadi Evron wrote: On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote: Jesper's Blog : More options on protecting against

Re: [Full-disclosure] ZERT patch [was: 0day for IE (Disabling Javascript no longer a fix)]

2006-09-25 Thread Gadi Evron
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote: Jesper's Blog : More options on protecting against recent IE vulnerabilities on a domain:

Re: [Full-disclosure] Could InfoSec be Worse than Death?

2006-09-25 Thread Brian Eaton
On 9/25/06, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand that, but I think your trust model is merely a euphemism for loss avoidance. And I don't see how you can avoid being seen as loss avoidance - unless you can show the ability to generate revenue. (My full disclosure for the day: I

Re: [Full-disclosure] Could InfoSec be Worse than Death?

2006-09-25 Thread Benjamin Robson
Paul wrote: Saving money is a form of generating revenue indeed, but even in his description Ben is forced to use the words reducing the risk to describe his money saving techniques. That's loss avoidance, plain and simple. One aspect of saving money is indeed risk avoidance. But my point

[Full-disclosure] iDefense Security Advisory 09.23.06: FreeBSD i386_set_ldt Integer Overflow Vulnerability

2006-09-25 Thread iDefense Labs
FreeBSD i386_set_ldt Integer Overflow Vulnerability iDefense Security Advisory 09.23.06 http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/ Sep 23, 2006 I. BACKGROUND FreeBSD is a modern operating system for x86, amd64, Alpha, IA-64, PC-98 and SPARC architectures. It's based on the UNIX

[Full-disclosure] iDefense Security Advisory 09.23.06: FreeBSD i386_set_ldt Integer Signedness Vulnerability

2006-09-25 Thread iDefense Labs
FreeBSD i386_set_ldt Integer Signedness Vulnerability iDefense Security Advisory 09.23.06 http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/ Sep 23, 2006 I. BACKGROUND FreeBSD is a modern operating system for x86, amd64, Alpha, IA-64, PC-98 and SPARC architectures. It's based on the UNIX

[Full-disclosure] Several updates in Windows VML Vulnerability FAQ

2006-09-25 Thread Juha-Matti Laurio
Several updates to Windows VML Vulnerability FAQ (CVE-2006-4868) document at http://blogs.securiteam.com/?p=640 have been done. These updates include information about the state of five exploits (SP2 and earlier), previous Vgx.dll issue fixed in MS04-028 and attacks via e-postcard (greeting

[Full-disclosure] Exploitation Frameworks

2006-09-25 Thread jammer128
I've been looking at a few like MetaSploit (metasploit.com), I found another that uses XSS called beef at bindshell.net, I was wondering if anybody knows any others worth checking out? Thanks. :) Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld ___

[Full-disclosure] USB Penetration

2006-09-25 Thread jammer128
Mentionable usb system penetration kits, preferrably winxp, any others will do. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by

Re: [Full-disclosure] ZERT patch [was: 0day for IE (Disabling Javascript no longer a fix)]

2006-09-25 Thread Bojan Zdrnja
On 9/26/06, Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jesper's Blog : More options on protecting against recent IE vulnerabilities on a domain:

Re: [Full-disclosure] Could InfoSec be Worse than Death?

2006-09-25 Thread Kenneth F. Belva
Paul, Thanks for your comments. Unless you can demonstrate concrete revenue generationg directly attributable to security, I don't think you can overcome that perception (and loss avoidance through trust building does not generate revenue.) I believe the purpose of the paper is to move

[Full-disclosure] ARES 2007 Workshop Call for papers Submission Deadline : November 19, 2006

2006-09-25 Thread Manh Tho
Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students.++| The Second International Conference on Availability, | | Reliability and Security (AReS) ||ARES 2007-The International

Re: [Full-disclosure] Yet another 0day for IE

2006-09-25 Thread Ronald MacDonald
Bill, The VML PoC can be found at http://www.secguru.com/node/311 Regards, Ronald. On 23/09/06, Bill Stout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, If anyone finds a site where the 0day still lives, please let me know. All the URLs I've found are off the air. -- Ronald MacDonald

[Full-disclosure] Uninformed Journal Release Announcement: Volume 5

2006-09-25 Thread Uninformed Staff
Uninformed is pleased to announce the release of its fifth volume. The articles included in this volume are: - Exploitation Technology: Implementing a Customer X86 Encoder Author: skape - Exploitation Technology: Preventing the Exploitation of SEH Overwrites Author: skape - Fuzzing:

Re: [Full-disclosure] USB Penetration

2006-09-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sh33n
http://www.mojopac.com/portal/content/hellomojo.jsp Not for Pen-Test originally but I think It's worth trying I just read it from Gizmodo.com http://www.remote-exploit.org/index.php/BackTrack My Favorite...But not an XP :( And I failed to install it on my thumb-drive(4G) -And I use it for

[Full-disclosure] Ruxcon 2006

2006-09-25 Thread cfp
Hi, RUXCON 2006 will be held this weekend over the 30th of September to the 1st of October at the University of Technology, Sydney. Doors will open at 8:30am and the first presentation commences at 9:30am. Our presentation list is complete. RUXCON 2006 Presentations [1]: 1. Java Class