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	<title>XSS Worm : Cross Site Scripting &#38; Web 2.0 Security</title>
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		<title>Hacking Google with 0day PHP Photo Exploit - Video Tutorial</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xssworm</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Blackhat hacker penguinman2100 demonstrates how to hack google to upload any hacker files or pictures to any website using PHP Photo exploits.

The blackhat hacker penguinman2100 hacks into websites using this tutorial as you can see in our video. 
He has illegally hacked into sites such as http://textideas.com and http://www.sq-bleiburg.at as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blackhat hacker <em>penguinman2100</em> demonstrates <a href="/category/How-to-hack" title="How To Hack - Category">how to hack</a> google to upload any hacker files or pictures to any website using PHP Photo exploits.</p>
<p><code></code></p>
<p>The blackhat hacker <em>penguinman2100</em> hacks into websites using this tutorial as you can see in our video.<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>He has illegally hacked into sites such as <a href="http://textideas.com" title="textideas.com hacked by penguinman1200" target="_blank">http://textideas.com</a> and <a href="http://www.sq-bleiburg.at/" title="sq-bleiburg.at hacked by penguinman2100" target="_blank">http://www.sq-bleiburg.at</a> as he has proven with the access in this video.</strong></p>
<p>Penguinman2100 writes on his cracker blog:</p>
<blockquote><p>**NEWS: I have recently become intrested in &#8220;Google Hacking&#8221; now I know that sounds pretty bad but it isnt really. &#8220;Google Hacking&#8221; is basically accessing things on Google in which <em>the average person cant do</em> and in which <em>some illegal activity can occur</em>.</p></blockquote>
<p>The blackhat hacker <a href="http://youtube.com/profile_videos?p=r&amp;user=penguinman2100&amp;page=1" title="Penguinman2100 - blackhat hacking google" target="_blank">Penguinman2100</a> is also known as Zachary D., he is male and 19 years old, and he currently lives in Calgary, Alberta (Canada), where laws against blackhat hacking in google do not exist.</p>
<p>His hack partner SteveTheMaster (Steve Nahilian) also a blackhat and is a much dangerous hacker with advanced skills.</p>
<blockquote><p>Zach~<br />
Hello! we are hacking partners. my name is zach. im not as good as of a hacker as steve, but i&#8217;ll do my part.</p>
<p>Steve~<br />
sup, i am Stevethemaster (<a href="goim?screenname=StevethemasterX&amp;message=Hello" title="StevethemasterX - AIM Chat">click here to chat on AIM</a>) from <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/15024889945459624258" title="Stevecomany - blogger profile" target="_blank">Steve Company</a>, i am the king of goldfinger &amp; Qcode64 hacking. <em>i do every type of hacking known to hackers on da web</em>, l00k 0ut 4 my vids. Zach is my hacking partner, he has a great mind on image hacks. we are from spiralmountain.co.uk</p></blockquote>
<p>Thank you to Zachary D. and Steve the Master Hacker for producing these excellent hacking video tutorials to teach blackhats how to hack illegally into websites such as textideas.com. Please we are waiting for episode 2 of How to Hack Google! Keep up the good works and submit great hacking tutorials for our readers!</p>
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		<title>Inside the &#8220;Ron Paul&#8221; Spam Botnet - Blackhat malware promotes politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Black Hat Hacking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Inside the &#8220;Ron Paul&#8221; Spam Botnet 
URL: http://www.secureworks.com/research/threats/ronpaul
Date: December 4, 2007
Author: Joe Stewart

On the weekend of October 27, 2007, the Internet was suddenly bombarded with a rash of spam emails promoting U.S. presidential candidate Ron Paul. The spam run continued until Tuesday, October 30,when it stopped as suddenly as it began. At the same time, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Inside the &#8220;Ron Paul&#8221; Spam Botnet </strong><br />
URL: <a href="http://www.secureworks.com/research/threats/ronpaul">http://www.secureworks.com/research/threats/ronpaul</a><br />
Date: December 4, 2007<br />
Author: Joe Stewart</p>
<p><img src="http://images.salon.com/news/feature/2007/06/02/ron_paul/story.jpg" alt="ron paul supporters are known for unconventional promotional tactics" align="left" height="235" width="201" /></p>
<p>On the weekend of October 27, 2007, the Internet was suddenly bombarded with a rash of spam emails promoting U.S. presidential candidate Ron Paul. The spam run continued until Tuesday, October 30,when it stopped as suddenly as it began. At the same time, politicalblogs began to light up, accusing the campaign (or at least its ardent supporters) of running a <a href="/category/Crimeware-bots" title="More stories of CRIMINAL BOTNETS at xssworm.com">criminal botnet</a> for political purposes. We decided to cut through the spin and take a closer look at this botnet to determine its origins and shine some light on who might be responsible.</p>
<p><strong>Tracking the Spam</strong><br />
Tracking specific spam back to a particular piece of botnet malware is somewhat challenging, but given the right cooperation between researchers who hold different pieces of the puzzle, &#8230;<br />
[continues at <a href="http://www.secureworks.com/research/threats/ronpaul">http://www.secureworks.com/research/threats/ronpaul</a> ..]</p>
<p>Also see: <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,307056,00.html" title="Ron Paul supporters using criminal hacking to promote hate" target="_blank">Ron Paul Supporters Using Criminal Botnets to Spread Message of Hate</a></p>
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		<title>0day Vulnerabilities For Sale - the new market for weaponized exploits</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article was posted by (Paul Goebbels) to a security mailing list  
 
Source : http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0028.html

 
  From: Goebbels Amadeus
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 06:12:54 +0100 (CET)

 Despite the misleading subject of my e-mail, I want to
bring to attention an important topic which hasn&#8217;t been
discussed enough among the security industry: the exploit
and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<address>The following article was posted by (Paul Goebbels) to a security mailing list  </address>
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<address>Source : <a href="http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0028.html" title="Full Disclosure archives">http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0028.html</a><br />
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<blockquote><address> <span> From: Goebbels Amadeus</span><br />
<span>Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 06:12:54 +0100 (CET)</span><br />
</address>
<p> Despite the misleading subject of my e-mail, I want to<br />
bring to attention an important topic which hasn&#8217;t been<br />
discussed enough among the security industry: the exploit<br />
and vulnerability research market.<br />
Since this might be a vastly secretive community, I will<br />
introduce some of the members of this dramatically disturbing tale:<br />
Since a few years ago, few companies emerged, who offer<br />
rewards for exploit information and vulnerability research.<br />
In the beginning, only iDefense (US-based) openly disclosed<br />
its activities.<br />
In the last 3-7 years we have seen ZDI (TippingPoint, now<br />
3Com and soon its Chinese major shareholder..), WSLabi (the<br />
failed attempt on creating an auction market model for these<br />
sales) and Netragard (the old DMCA publicity stunt SNOsoft).<br />
Now I&#8217;ll start telling a tale of distrust, lies, middle men<br />
and other creatures of the infraworld&#8230;<br />
Once upon a time, there was an increasingly powerful work<br />
force capable of crafting weapons which existed only in a<br />
digital world. This force didn&#8217;t have a name. They didn&#8217;t<br />
pursue certifications. They were anonymous. But some realized<br />
they also had the power of influencing people, controlling the<br />
flow of information from anywhere at any time. Humanity has<br />
seen for ages how the power of controlling information can<br />
take down whole nations. Nowadays, in an open and free market,<br />
the corporate world is nothing but a battlefield.<br />
There&#8217;s no crimson tie. No blood escaping the bodies of its<br />
soldiers. The soldiers are John Does, fighting for a decent<br />
paycheck at any cost, selling out their spirits and time for<br />
the corporate machine. Selling out their comrades and dignity.<br />
Losing the values, principles and matter that make them human.<br />
Unknowingly, they are becoming mere tools of few individuals<br />
who have a neverending desire for fame and wealth.<br />
Have you ever considered your future in their hands? You&#8217;ve<br />
been working for 50 years, your liver and kidneys start failing,<br />
creating visible symptoms, stains in your skin. You can&#8217;t handle<br />
life in the same way anymore. For what? What have you done in<br />
those 50 years but serving another man to become more wealthy<br />
and over powered. The approaching day of your death and its<br />
mere vision strikes you like a burning iron blade.<br />
In this New Age battlefield, you can make a difference. A<br />
talented youth started emerging and dedicated passionately to<br />
fulfill its curiosity. Day after day, spending countless hours<br />
in front of a machine. Understanding it&#8217;s inner design and<br />
details, breaking it apart and reassembling it the way it wasn&#8217;t<br />
meant to be assembled.<br />
Some others dedicated painful discipline to physical work and<br />
trained themselves for achieving perfection in both intellectual<br />
and physical matters. Others fell in the way and never made it<br />
to the final round.<br />
After realizing they could not let the corporate world exhaust<br />
them, they tried another way. The emerging market of digital<br />
ammunition seemed to be a potential solution for their problems.<br />
But, unbeknown to them, they were wrong. They didn&#8217;t think at<br />
first glance of the impossibly huge amounts of lies and fallacies<br />
they were about experience. Because in a world where you can<br />
claim something while denying your obligation to prove it, the<br />
only power that is left is that of common sense and intuition.<br />
The ability to sense the deceitful and know the truthful.<br />
Once day, our John Doe decided to approach an independent digital<br />
weapons dealer, looking for better offers than those coming from<br />
more established business men. He knew that more then business men,<br />
they were only middle men. After numerous experiences with these<br />
little twerps, he realized they were also abusing their condition.<br />
John was also especially disappointed with the fact that in the<br />
world of digital ammunitions, there&#8217;s no real way of providing the<br />
goods without turning them instantly useless and vulnerable to abuse.<br />
John knew that these middle men were taking cuts far higher than<br />
their alleged 10 to 15 percent of the sale. How could John prove it<br />
otherwise? There was no way of ensuring that their contacts were<br />
getting the very exact figure John demanded.<br />
Despite this fact, John also realized that in this market of smoke,<br />
the seller is not supposed to set the price of the goods. These<br />
middle men, in their great mistake of thinking that wisdom and<br />
knowledge are the very same thing, wanted John to believe that<br />
they were the ones who set the price of the goods.<br />
John&#8217;s disappointment was growing to incredibly high stakes: &#8220;As a<br />
child, whenever I tried to tell the candy shop clerk that the<br />
chocolate bars cost as much as the peanut butter ones, he simply<br />
tried to smack my head down. I wasn&#8217;t supposed to even swap the<br />
labels in a failed attempt to fool this man, who had been making<br />
candy bars for more time than I was actually able to barely say<br />
my name.&#8221;<br />
John had been crafting digital weapons for so many time, with<br />
such a high talent and effectiveness, that he was much less<br />
dispensable than this middle men. His personal background, of an<br />
extremely tough childhood full of misery and hostility, also<br />
gave him the necessary wisdom and experience in this world for<br />
quickly spotting the weaknesses of these ego-crazed men. Their<br />
weakness lies in the fact that without John and his comrades,<br />
they have no business. They lack far more than just knowledge.<br />
They lack wisdom, passion and truly devoted dedication to whatever<br />
they do. Sooner or later they will make the same mistake of other<br />
weapon dealers: getting killed with their own goods.<br />
Hypocrisy among these poorly educated middle-men was so high,<br />
that they resorted to low tricks and ridiculous attempts to gain<br />
the trust of people like John. They went as far as insulting the<br />
intelligence of those who provided them with the goods they are<br />
unable to produce themselves. No matter how hard the tried, it<br />
never brought anything back but silence. The silence that can be<br />
clearly understood as a fully precise signal of genuine despise.<br />
The fundamental error behind their approach is that trust can&#8217;t<br />
be gained for cheering, boosting the ego, claiming great benefits<br />
and wealth. Trust is something sculpted in hard rock, taking years<br />
to become an admirable master piece. It doesn&#8217;t come attached to<br />
an email.<br />
At the end, John and his comrades found out that wasting their<br />
time with these miserable beings was far less than fruitful. It<br />
was exhausting them as much as the corporate world did. They<br />
realized that any day above ground is a good day. Let the snakes<br />
change their skin and show their true colors. In the desert,<br />
being unable to match with environment has deadly consequences.<br />
It might take years, or decades, but time will set them all where<br />
they belong. Life does not forgive and everything has come to an<br />
end&#8230; because they lack of patience, the end will approach their<br />
nefarious activities sooner than they ever thought and John and<br />
his comrades will be free again.<br />
And this tale has to come to an end itself&#8230; the end of a<br />
story about middle-men and their madness.<br />
Time&#8217;s striking force.<br />
- Paul Amadeus Goebbels</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>very interesting, mr goebbels.</strong></p>
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		<title>Microsoft LIVE vulnerable to XSS Meta Manipulation Attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blackhat SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The search.live.com search engine index appears to be vulnerable to a form of XSS Meta Manipulation and fraudulent content cross-domain injection attacks.
Links to XSS injected domains are being indexed and followed by the Live spiders, as can be seen in the following example when searching for &#8220;XSS Hacking&#8221; information:

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=hacking+xss&#38;go=Search
Any user following the link from live.com [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <em>search.live.com</em> search engine index appears to be vulnerable to a form of XSS Meta Manipulation and fraudulent content cross-domain injection attacks.</p>
<p>Links to XSS injected domains are being indexed and followed by the Live spiders, as can be seen in the following example when searching for &#8220;XSS Hacking&#8221; information:</p>
<p><img src="http://xssworm.blogvis.com/files/2007/11/ethicalhackernetissecure.PNG" alt="Example Cross-domain content insertion" /><a href="http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=hacking+xss&amp;go=Search" title="Search Hacking XSS @ Search.live.com" target="_blank"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=hacking+xss&amp;go=Search" title="Search Hacking XSS @ Search.live.com" target="_blank">http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=hacking+xss&amp;go=Search</a></p>
<p>Any user following the link from live.com to the Ethical Hacking expert knowledge site <a href="http://www.ethicalhacker.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,54'%22%3E%3Cscript%08%3Ealert(%22xss%22)%3C/script%08%3E/script%3E,666/topic,1584.0/" title="The Ethical Hacker Network for Security Expert" target="_blank">ethicalhacker.net</a> will currently see this output:</p>
<p><img src="http://xssworm.blogvis.com/files/2007/11/ethicalhackernetxsssqlinjectionsecurity.PNG" alt="example cross-content domain inject" /></p>
<p>It is unknown at this time if dynamic search engine rankings or other abstract Web 2.0 technologies that rely on indexed search engine results are affected by this vulnerability. It is very possible that the search.live.com spider could be tricked into following and indexing vulnerabilities far more serious than common cross-site javascript alert() injections, but XSSWorm has not yet tested this exploit vector on Live.</p>
<p>Thanks to XSSWorm readers, Ethicalhacker.net has now been informed of the serious XSS injection bug in their installation of Wordpress. It is obvious from the image above that the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild by Blackhat SEO optimizers, malicious crackers and possibly for cross-net spear pharming and targeted phly-phishing attacks.  Microsoft has not yet responded to this bug advisory as the vulnerability still appears to be exploitable at time of writing. We will post updates here at <a href="http://xssworm.com" title="Web 2.0 Security and Injection Portal" target="_blank">xssworm.com</a> as new spider injection holes are discovered.</p>
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		<title>Independent expert hackers claim Web app bugs are less severe than other vulnerabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expert hackers from the elite security and hacking specialist TELUS claim that their research demonstrates that Buffer Overflows are still the top threat to the safety of the Internet in these days of distributed social data networks and rich Web 2.0 application platforms.
Web application vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection may be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Expert hackers from the elite security and hacking specialist TELUS claim that their research demonstrates that Buffer Overflows are still the top threat to the safety of the Internet in these days of distributed social data networks and rich Web 2.0 application platforms.</p>
<p><font><font>Web application vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection may be widespread, but <a href="http://milw0rm.com/webapps.php" title="milw0rm web application vulnerabilities" target="_blank"><strong>old-fashioned buffer overflow bugs are the most common flaws reported</strong></a>, according to new vulnerability research from Telus. The hacking experts also report that </font></font><font><font>the level of severity of bugs in Microsoft products is declining significantly.</font></font></p>
<p><font><font>Telus, which provides vulnerability research analysis to most of the 20 top security vendors &#8212; including IBM ISS and McAfee &#8212; <strong>bases its data on vulnerabilities reported in enterprise-class products.</strong></font></font><strong> </strong></p>
<p><font><font>Microsoft went from around 175 high-severity vulnerabilities reported last year to 129 this year, and from 20 critical bugs to eight this year so far, according to Telus&#8217;s data. And overall, <strong>the top 50 software and network equipment vendors have had fewer severe bugs this year than last</strong>, says Richard Reiner, chief security and technology officer for Telus, who based its data only on vulnerabilities reported in enterprise-class products. </font></font></p>
<p><font><font>&#8220;The severity of Microsoft&#8217;s product [vulnerabilities] are dropping dramatically,&#8221; Reiner says.</font></font></p>
<p><font><font><strong>Web app bugs are less severe than other types of vulnerabilities</strong>, the research firm said. Buffer overflows, which accounted for 1,470 of the reported bugs (in enterprise-class software, according to Telus data) from January &#8216;04 until now, are also typically the most severe. &#8220;This was surprising, because <strong>buffer overflows are among the easiest vulnerabilities to avoid or correct</strong>,&#8221; Reiner says. &#8220;When they exist, they tend to be the most critical&#8230; I&#8217;m not surprised by that part, but by how prevalent they are.&#8221;</font></font></p>
<p>Telus has been widely respected for their long-time hacking expertise ever since acquiring Canadian security specialists Assurent and Richard Reiner for an undisclosed sum in April 2006.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.assurent.com/fileadmin/template/assurent/images/telus_assurent1.jpg" alt="Telus and Assurent Security" align="right" height="222" hspace="1" width="300" />&#8220;Customers will be the beneficiaries of our combined suite of internationally recognized security solutions that have a long and successful track record of <em>enabling business resiliency</em>&#8221; claimed Richard Reiner at the time of the acquisition.</p>
<p><font><font><strong>Common Web vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection aren&#8217;t typically critical threats</strong>, Reiner says. Only one bug in the off-the-shelf Web products studied by Telus had a <em>critical</em> SQL bug, and none of them had a critical XSS flaw, he says.</font></font></p>
<p><font><font>The good news, then, is that <strong>off-the-shelf Web platforms are relatively secure</strong>. The bad news is that the customized or home-grown Web apps Telus studied were riddled with critical bugs<strong>.</strong></font></font></p>
<p><font><font><strong> &#8220;The number of vulnerabilities in widely used Web application platforms has been relatively small,&#8221;</strong> he says. &#8220;But the situation is quite different in custom and one-off applications businesses build.&#8221;</font></font></p>
<p><font><font>Telus&#8217;s data differs from that of Mitre Corp.&#8217;s latest <a href="http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=103774" title="XSS Most prevalent vulnerability - Mitre" target="_blank">Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Report</a>, which was released in May. The broader CVE report named <em>XSS as the most prevalent vulnerability reported in 2006</em>. It is currently unknown at this time how Telus and the Mitre Corp., while working with the same public vulnerability information, arrived at such opposite conclusions. Some readers have suggested that Telus&#8217; only motivation for releasing this questionable &#8220;research&#8221; is to generate PR and increase sales - possibly through fear and misinformation - while others claim that respected security vendors such as Telus would rarely (if ever) resort to such unethical tactics in pursuit of profits. </font></font></p>
<p>T<font><font>he number of critical and high-risk vulnerabilities is increasing, but that may be because these bugs are now being discovered on smaller vendors&#8217; products, Telus says. <strong>Server vulnerabilities still outnumber client flaws</strong>, but client bugs have increased from 31 percent of the vulnerabilities last year to 39 percent this year.</font></font></p>
<p>Read the original article over at <a href="http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=139871" title="Security experts claim Buffer Overflows are more common than web application bugs" target="_blank">DarkReading.com</a> - a security portal for &#8220;<font><font>IT professionals with security specialties and CISSP or CISA certifications; CIOs; CTOs; CSOs, CISOs, and CCOs.&#8221;</font></font></p>
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