RE: [Full-Disclosure] msblast DDos counter measures (More Insight Maybe?)

2003-08-15 Thread Christopher Lyon
- From: Marc Maiffret [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 2:58 PM To: B3r3n; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] msblast DDos counter measures Yah this has been mentioned a few times although I am not sure why your blackhole windowsupdate.microsoft.com

RE: [Full-Disclosure] msblast DDos counter measures (More Insight Maybe?)

2003-08-15 Thread B3r3n
, Christopher Lyon Affant Communication (formerly DNS Network Services) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Marc Maiffret [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 2:58 PM To: B3r3n; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] msblast DDos counter measures Yah

Re: [Full-Disclosure] msblast DDos counter measures (More Insight Maybe?)

2003-08-15 Thread Chris Garrett
- Original Message - From: Christopher Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marc Maiffret [EMAIL PROTECTED]; B3r3n [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 10:22 PM Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] msblast DDos counter measures (More Insight Maybe?) There has been posted on many

RE: [Full-Disclosure] msblast DDos counter measures

2003-08-15 Thread Laurent LEVIER
Marc, therefore keeping machines from using windows update to get patches. Because I have 15 000 machines to tell that... the worm only hits windowsupdate.com Glancing at multiple internet sites, the 2 main sites were mentionned, and so in doubt... But it is not a very problem. Once we will

[Full-Disclosure] msblast DDos counter measures - a new worm to fix the problem

2003-08-15 Thread Daniel Rudolph
Hi, i have an (maybe) new idea that worth discussing. What about writing a new worm based on the well know exploit - this worm should do something like: - disinfect the machine from the know variants of msblast - install the patch or at least inform the user that he should to that - spread out

Re: [Full-Disclosure] msblast DDos counter measures (More Insight Maybe?)

2003-08-15 Thread Vladimir Parkhaev
Quoting Christopher Lyon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Look at these traces to see what it is doing. Note the source and destination ports and addresses. WINDOWSUPDATE.COM set to resolve normally 19:48:23.963345 192.168.187.171.1823 204.79.188.11.http: S 886046720:886046720(0) win 16384 It is

RE: [Full-Disclosure] msblast DDos counter measures (More Insight Maybe?)

2003-08-15 Thread Christopher Lyon
From: Vladimir Parkhaev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting B3r3n ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Christopher, So, the machine is coming back up and the date was set after the 16th and what do I see, I see a SYN flood but the source is 127.0.0.1 and the destination is 192.168.X.X/16. (I am

RE: [Full-Disclosure] msblast DDos counter measures (More Insight Maybe?)

2003-08-15 Thread Christopher Lyon
-Original Message- From: Vladimir Parkhaev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 9:18 AM To: Christopher Lyon Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] msblast DDos counter measures (More Insight Maybe?) Quoting Christopher Lyon ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Full-Disclosure] msblast DDos counter measures - a new worm tofix the problem

2003-08-15 Thread Paul Schmehl
Yeah, that's just what we need. Then we get to explain to users that *some* worms are bad, and other worms are good. NOT!!! --On Friday, August 15, 2003 03:20:12 PM +0200 Daniel Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have an (maybe) new idea that worth discussing. What about writing a new

Re: [Full-Disclosure] msblast DDos counter measures (More Insight Maybe?)

2003-08-15 Thread Vladimir Parkhaev
Quoting Christopher Lyon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): OK, Sorry that I didn't see that before but I see it now. Thanks. It is allright. I liked the idea of playing with DNS to avoid the DOS myself... Looks like m$ killed windowsupdate.com and there will be no dDOS (bring:) Here is what Len

Re: [Full-Disclosure] msblast DDos counter measures - a new worm tofix the problem

2003-08-15 Thread Ron DuFresne
You mean *after* you get out of jail smile Thanks, Ron DuFresne On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Paul Schmehl wrote: Yeah, that's just what we need. Then we get to explain to users that *some* worms are bad, and other worms are good. NOT!!! --On Friday, August 15, 2003 03:20:12 PM +0200 Daniel

[Full-Disclosure] msblast DDos counter measures

2003-08-14 Thread B3r3n
All, We found a simple solution to protect our IntraNet against the DDoS. Since the msblast.exe will SYN flood windowsupdate.com (or windowsupdate.microsoft.com) with 50 packets per second (according to our tests). Since our IntraNet solves all its DNS queries through internal caches

RE: [Full-Disclosure] msblast DDos counter measures

2003-08-14 Thread Marc Maiffret
vulnerabilities | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of B3r3n | Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 11:10 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: [Full-Disclosure] msblast DDos counter measures | | | All, | | We found a simple solution to protect our