Ok, so with all the hype surrounding this vulnerability, I figured that I would do a write up and give an example of how it works. Metasploit, as usual, makes it really simple. I really consider this to be a social engineering attack, because you need the victim to access a share. Yes, in the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘remote’
Invasion of Privacy. The Sequel.
Posted: 24th May 2010 by Matt in hacks, securityTags: administration, cam, facebook, identity, information, keylogger, myspace, personal, predator, remote, sex, stalking, theft, tool, web
As promised, I’m posting about another method to obtain private information about people and their personal lives. This one has darker implications, though, so I’m not going to be posting the real names of the people that I find, nor will I post private information. The people listed here simply made a mistake by not [...]
UPDATED: Linux Vulnerability: sctp_process_unk_param & Scapy
Posted: 18th May 2010 by Matt in code, hacks, securityTags: advisory, crash, denial, denial of service, DoS, error, python, reboot, remote, scapy, SCTP, sctp_process_unk_param, service, vulnerability, vulnerable
I was going through my RSS updates and noticed this: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39794. Not good. Any time that there’s a remote DoS against a Linux box, it means bad things. I started digging, because I’m not terribly familiar with SCTP. First, I wanted to know more about the vulnerability itself. I found this: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/2859. Simply put, the [...]