RE: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Steve Wray
I'd agree but I'd need to add something to that... Its also the responsibility of 'the person or orginization that connects to a hostile enviroment' to make some decent effort to reduce the level of hostility in that environment. Hostility is neither the enemy of nor an effective counter or

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Kristian Hermansen
In my opinion, this is just a sad attempt to deflect responsibility away from Microsoft Corporation. Yeah, the kid is quite foolish for making himself such an easy scapegoat...but I'm sure the prosecutors will push for more punishmentthan he deserves since the ORIGINAL virus writer(s) have

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, August 29, 2003 3:47 PM -0500 Jerry Heidtke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like it took the FBI 6 days to find what took 10 minutes on Google. Let's see, executable name is teekids.exe, here's a script-kiddie that goes by teekid, he's got a web site called t33kid.com, the whois

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, August 29, 2003 3:43 PM -0700 Anthony Saffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for just jumping in here but I couldn't resist. Certainly, you have to admit that there is a such thing as shared responsibility and contributory negligence. Even the law recognizes these things. Sure, it's

[Full-Disclosure] How to massively remove DCOM RPC Worms

2003-08-30 Thread B3r3n
Hi Gentlemen, Following the article http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/119/333927, I applied this principle on our IntraNet. I used the oc192-dcom proof of concept code from securityfocus too. I create a ms.bat script placed into the startup group (c:\documents and setting\all

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Fw: Computers crashed just before blackout

2003-08-30 Thread Michael Scheidell
(notes below...) - Original Message - From: Richard M. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Michael Scheidell' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Alan Kloster' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Geoff Shively' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Drew Copley' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 6:35 AM

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Richard M. Smith
The FBI followed the same steps that you outlined to locate Jeffrey Parson according to his indictment papers. The FBI also got an IP address for Jeffrey which traced back to his house from the hosting service for t33kid.com. Moral of the story: If you want to be a successful cybercriminal,

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Jason Coombs
So you would blame ... Nice set of ethics there. you believed that admins were at fault for worm infections. ...it is each admins responsiblity ... not the coder. a crime victim is affected by the crime ... Before we can make progress in a discussion of blame we have to get the analogy

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:22:19 PDT, morning_wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: get educated, take some responsibility for you high paying job, and quit trying to lay the blame elsewhere. On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:04:19 PDT, morning_wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: i think you mixed the top portion of my

[Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect (long reply)

2003-08-30 Thread Chris DeVoney
On Friday, August 29, 2003 12:22 PM, morning_wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shouldnt these measures been in place already? instead of rushing on a per-incident basis, you should be implimenting these things anyway. IMHO is prudent to expend some overkill during lockdown and

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Anthony Saffer
The problem is that governments and corporations own the media and this story is not going to be represented in a fair way to John Q. Public. I feel very sorry for the kid...he's only in high school and now he'll probably have a criminal record (federal). Why feel sorry for him? While it's

RE: [Full-Disclosure] MsBlaster Source?

2003-08-30 Thread Jerry Heidtke
That's the source to Nachia/Welchia. -Original Message- From: Shanphen Dawa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 5:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Full-Disclosure] MsBlaster Source? Can anyone, who is obviously better at coding then I, verify the rumours that

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Jason Coombs
So you would blame ... Nice set of ethics there. you believed that admins were at fault for worm infections. ...it is each admins responsiblity ... not the coder. a crime victim is affected by the crime ... Before we can make progress in a discussion of blame we have to get the analogy

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:46:32 PDT, morning_wood said: And has it occurred to you that *MAYBE* his high paying job would be more productive if he wasn't spending most of his time having to deal with people breaking in, either proactively or reactively?? that is his job You're totally missing

Re: [Full-Disclosure] RIP: ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer?

2003-08-30 Thread Nick FitzGerald
Richard M. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As everyone knows, ActiveX controls and the OBJECT tag has been a big source of security holes in Internet Explorer. ... And serious exposures in other browsers too. Remember, the folk writing most of these fancy plug-in doo-dad thingamies are

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Jason Coombs
So you would blame ... Nice set of ethics there. you believed that admins were at fault for worm infections. ...it is each admins responsiblity ... not the coder. a crime victim is affected by the crime ... Before we can make progress in a discussion of blame we have to get the analogy

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Jerry Heidtke
I didn't say anything about throwing his ass in jail, did I?. Since when did getting a warrant = incarceration? The evidence cited would be enough to at least cause him to be talked to, don't you think, even in an environment where there was some respect for civil rights and the presumption of

RE: [Full-Disclosure] MsBlaster Source?

2003-08-30 Thread gml
if ( !MyStartService(szServiceTftpd) ){ does appear so. Seems like there is more code that's not here. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Heidtke Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 6:59 PM To: Shanphen Dawa; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread gml
He'll more likely go to prison for 10-20. That's if he's lucky. I'm certain he will be made an example of. Poor dumb bastard. He wanted attention, now he's got it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard M. Smith Sent: Friday, August 29,

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, August 29, 2003 1:14 PM -1000 Jason Coombs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before we can make progress in a discussion of blame we have to get the analogy right. So, are you responsible for all five copies of this message? :-) Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Michael D Schleif
Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:08:29:17:12:06-0500] scribed: snip / Yet, if the worm writer hadn't released the worm, the problem wouldn't even exist, would it? And, if guns had not been invented, nobody could be shot to death. So, what is it that you are trying to say? Who can put

RE: [Full-Disclosure] JAP back doored

2003-08-30 Thread Drew Copley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Goncalo Costa Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 2:47 AM To: Drew Copley Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] JAP back doored snip

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect (longreply)

2003-08-30 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, August 29, 2003 15:49:43 -0700 Chris DeVoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] cast his pearls before swine and wrote: In short, yeah, what you suggest is true but now let's talk about a part of the real world that is examined infrequently. Well stated, but an absolute waste of time on this list.

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:47:22 CDT, Jerry Heidtke said: It looks like it took the FBI 6 days to find what took 10 minutes on Google. Let's see, executable name is teekids.exe, here's a No, given that it only hit 7,000 systems, it probably took 5 days before they got a copy of the binary and

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Nick FitzGerald
Chris DeVoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, August 29, 2003 8:24 AM, Charles Ballowe wrote: Interesting -- the net cost of the worm is actually a net $0.00. For every penny that a company chalks up as a cost to the worm, some other company must be chalking up the cost as a

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, August 29, 2003 7:13 PM -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're totally missing the point. And this surprises you? If I'm doing security 30 hours a week, that's 30 hours a week I'm not available for other things. [skip the long litany of *other* things you could be doing] In case

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Selfmade worms in the wild ;)

2003-08-30 Thread knitti
more fun: why didn't you try: http://de.trendmicro-europe.com/enterprise/security_info/ve_detail.php?id=55756VName=WORM_MSBLAST.%3Cscript%20type='text/javascript'%3Ealert('boo!')%3C/script%3E i think one can pass almost any xss there (citing

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Byron Copeland
Well, sounds like to me, they have lost focus and are looking for a quick scape goat to me. Again, probably driven by media pressures and others to show half-ass results based on half-ass analysis. -b On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 17:33, Brent Colflesh wrote: I'm sure that the FBI would never

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Selfmade worms in the wild ;)

2003-08-30 Thread knitti
more fun: why didn't you try: http://de.trendmicro-europe.com/enterprise/security_info/ve_detail.php?id=55756VName=WORM_MSBLAST.%3Cscript%20type='text/javascript'%3Ealert('boo!')%3C/script%3E i think one can pass almost any xss there (citing

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Byron Copeland
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 18:35, Richard M. Smith wrote: The FBI followed the same steps that you outlined to locate Jeffrey Parson according to his indictment papers. The FBI also got an IP address for Jeffrey which traced back to his house from the hosting service for t33kid.com. Moral of

[Full-Disclosure] The Jeffrey Parson criminal complaint is online

2003-08-30 Thread Richard M. Smith
http://news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/cyberlaw/usparson82803cmp.pdf ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Byron Copeland
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 19:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:46:32 PDT, morning_wood said: And has it occurred to you that *MAYBE* his high paying job would be more productive if he wasn't spending most of his time having to deal with people breaking in, either proactively

[Full-Disclosure] Lets discuss, Firewalls...

2003-08-30 Thread Mike @ Suzzal.net
Home and business firewalls Question to ponder: OK, on my home LAN I have set up a windows NT4.0 SP2 box with IIS and SQL Server 7.0. No hot fixes on the box at all. I run a NESSUS scan and I get over 500 available exploits for this box. My outside address is 216.144.100.100 (not

Re: [Full-Disclosure] GOOD: A legal fix for software flaws?

2003-08-30 Thread Jeremiah Cornelius
Gregory Steuck wrote: Jeremiah == Jeremiah Cornelius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeremiah Administration for Windows networks is similar to Jeremiah maintaining a 12-year old GM Truck. Brand new, W2K+3 Jeremiah already has 190K miles of wear. Where did you get his gem? It is

Re: (SPAM?) [Full-Disclosure] Lets discuss, Firewalls...

2003-08-30 Thread Jim Race
Nice try binky. Content analysis details: (5.60 hits, 5 required) HOME_EMPLOYMENT(1.6 points) BODY: Information on how to work at home (2) HTML_FONT_FACE_ODD (0.1 points) BODY: HTML font face is not a commonly used face HTML_60_70 (0.5 points) BODY: Message is 60% to

My life sucks - was Re: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlastersuspect

2003-08-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I must say, you folk are over worked and I think that you harbor a slight grudge because of it. In case anybody thinks that XX is somehow bragging, forget it. The many roles he is expected to fulfill are typical in a university environment. There *is* no such thing as an intrusion detection

HIS life sucks Re: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread technoboy
Teekid defacement of MNGFOA (Minnesota Government Finance Officers Association) http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:LxFv6TNMbqIJ:www.mngfoa.org/start_page. htm Teekid trying to get some trojan cgi-notify to work ? http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum10/978.htm Teekid discussing irc-based trojan

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Darren Reed
In some mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED], sie said: [...] That's 30 hours I'm not spending helping do network performance tuning [...] You know, I read through that list and saw numerous things that you shouldn't have to do, besides clean up from worms and viruses. If you feel you are so short on

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Selfmade worms in the wild ;)

2003-08-30 Thread morning_wood
well... lets see, we could make it an untrusted link by http://de.trendmicro-europe.com/enterprise/security_info/ve_detail.php?id=55756; VName=WORM_MSBLAST.script%20language=JavaScript%20src=http://www.astalavista .com/backend/news.js%20type=text/javascript/script and include some remote

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Larry W. Cashdollar
I can say this is the same for some companies in corporate america, I currently have to split my time working on security issues for the systems I control (100 solaris, 200 linux) and self improvment projects like implementing AFS. If there are currently no hair on fire events while the rest of

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Lets discuss, Firewalls...

2003-08-30 Thread Michael Scheidell
Admin password is blank. All IPC$ shares are there. I can surf the web from the box so it is fine. security industry has a saying: crunchy on the outside, chewey on the inside. EASY to get inside your computer with your help. Once done, you are 0wn8d. you can hit a malishious web site and

[Full-Disclosure] ... ... ...

2003-08-30 Thread fockertrip
opa, pessoal eu acho que jah sei pq o chat nao ta interpretando comandos do php e soh do html... eh pq o codigo do meu amigo eh tao precario que quando vc digita uma frase... essa frase eh salva num txt: http://www-lugal.no-ip.org/vargthon/testes/chat.txt e depois esse arquivo eh mostrado

[Full-Disclosure] MS Blaster author / morning_wood misinformed

2003-08-30 Thread darren
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Donald, Interesting (child-like) thoughts, but in reality, this society we live in has laws. If a person leaves the door to their home unlocked one evening (consciously or mistakenly) and someone chooses to go inside and ransacks the place. Sure

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Michael D Schleif
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:08:29:20:56:30-0400] scribed: On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:47:22 CDT, Jerry Heidtke said: It looks like it took the FBI 6 days to find what took 10 minutes on Google. Let's see, executable name is teekids.exe, here's a No, given that it only hit 7,000 systems, it

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Michael D Schleif
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:08:29:20:56:30-0400] scribed: On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:47:22 CDT, Jerry Heidtke said: It looks like it took the FBI 6 days to find what took 10 minutes on Google. Let's see, executable name is teekids.exe, here's a No, given that it only hit 7,000 systems, it

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

2003-08-30 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Saturday, August 30, 2003 9:24 AM -0500 Michael D Schleif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, they nabbed a nickel-bagger; let's not get carried away! This kid is small potatoes, compared to other vermin spreaders, and we -- on this list, at least -- know that as fact. It's one thing to make an

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Lets discuss, Firewalls...

2003-08-30 Thread Ben Nelson
On August 29, 9:33 pm Mike @ Suzzal.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you get to it? How? Possibly. Source routed packets. Do you still need a firewall? Why? Yes. To block source routed packets. There may be a registry setting to not accept source routed packets on windows...I'm not sure.

Re: [Full-Disclosure] MS Blaster author / morning_wood misinformed

2003-08-30 Thread Peter Busser
Hi! Interesting (child-like) thoughts, but in reality, this society we live in has laws. If a person leaves the door to their home unlocked one evening (consciously or mistakenly) and someone chooses to go inside and ransacks the place. Sure the homeowner probably should have locked the

[Full-Disclosure] unsuscribe list please

2003-08-30 Thread CreativNet Pro Design
Linux user: 58887 Red Hat - CreativNet.info ** AVISO LEGAL ***Este mensaje es solamente para la persona a la que va dirigido. Puede contenerinformacin confidencial o legalmente protegida. No hay renuncia a la

Re: [Full-Disclosure] MS Blaster author / morning_wood misinformed

2003-08-30 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Saturday, August 30, 2003 6:22 PM +0200 Peter Busser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know about US, Canadian, German or Chinese law. But in Dutch law there is a big difference between entering a house and stealing stuff and breaking into a house and stealing exactly the same stuff.

Re: [Full-Disclosure] MS Blaster author / morning_wood misinformed

2003-08-30 Thread Hoho
Whenever someone makes the analogy about breaking into someone's computer and breaking into someone's house, I always must suggest otherwise. Say I live across the street from you, and am out on my lawn talking to you while you're on your lawn, yelling across the street. And let's say that

[Full-Disclosure] xss holes

2003-08-30 Thread SeSMA
Hi, are there any paper about xss holes testing. My company is developing a new php app and want to test it to make it a litle more secure. thx -- Servicios de Seguridad Informatica www.masev.cl ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.

Re: [Full-Disclosure] GOOD: A legal fix for software flaws?

2003-08-30 Thread Darren Reed
In some mail from Jeremiah Cornelius, sie said: Darren Reed wrote: I, for one, would not cry if the law made it impossible to sell or provide GPL'd software to people because it could not be provieded with a disclaimer. Sooner or later the software industry needs to grow up and take

Re: [Full-Disclosure] The Jeffrey Parson criminal complaint is online

2003-08-30 Thread Greg Owen
Richard M. Smith wrote: http://news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/cyberlaw/usparson82803cmp.pdf Great link. Items of particular interest: Page 9, lines 6-8: Since dl.t33kid.com is a copy of www.t33kid.com, it also can be used to capture IP addresses of compromised computers. Isn't that reaching a

RE: [Full-Disclosure] MS Blaster author / morning_wood misinformed

2003-08-30 Thread Kurt
| --On Saturday, August 30, 2003 6:22 PM +0200 Peter Busser | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I don't know about US, Canadian, German or Chinese law. But | in Dutch law | there is a big difference between entering a house and | stealing stuff and | breaking into a house and stealing exactly the

Re: [Full-Disclosure] MS Blaster author / morning_wood misinformed

2003-08-30 Thread Stormwalker
Hi Paul, The difference is Breaking and Entering vs Trespassing. They carry different penalties, just like Grand Theft Auto is not the same as Unauthorized Use of a vehicle. There are real differences in terms in arrests and judgements. Not that it really matters...

[Full-Disclosure] Re: Fwd: Computers crashed just before blackout

2003-08-30 Thread Juergen Schmidt
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Fw: Computers crashed just before blackout To: Geoff Shively [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 18:25:05 -0400 (EDT) (notes below...) - Original Message - From: Richard M. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]