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RE: Infected jpeg files?
From: "Brass, Phil (ISS Atlanta)" <PBrass () iss net>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 13:58:56 -0500
Actually, they finally found one early october 2001. Primary reference: http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/stego/abc.html Phil
-----Original Message----- From: Bruce Ediger [mailto:eballen1 () qwest net] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 10:31 AM To: OBrien, Brennan Cc: vuln-dev () securityfocus com Subject: RE: Infected jpeg files? On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, OBrien, Brennan wrote:Given that images are a major way of transmitting encoded data, it stands to reason that the hooks could exist -- that is, itcould be atransport mechanism. However, the viewer itself would haveto know to The view that "internet images transmit encoded data" is thoroughly discredited: see http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/21829.html Some researchers examined two million images from eBay, and found not a single image containing steganographically encoded data. Primary source: http://www.citi.umich.edu/techreports/reports/citi-tr-01-11.pdf But that's neither here nor there in the context of whether the dopey IE warning about viruses in images is correct.
Current thread:
- Re: Infected jpeg files?, (continued)
- Re: Infected jpeg files? H C (Nov 09)
- Re: Infected jpeg files? Thor (Nov 09)
- Re: Infected jpeg files? H C (Nov 09)
- RE: Infected jpeg files? OBrien, Brennan (Nov 08)
- RE: Infected jpeg files? Oliver Petruzel (Nov 09)
- RE: Infected jpeg files? Bruce Ediger (Nov 09)
- RE: Infected jpeg files? Chan, Stephen (TIS, Singapore) (Nov 09)
- RE: Infected jpeg files? OBrien, Brennan (Nov 09)
- RE: Infected jpeg files? Krul Thomas (Nov 09)
- Re: Infected jpeg files? Rob Pickering (Nov 09)
- Re: Infected jpeg files? zen-parse (Nov 09)
- RE: Infected jpeg files? Brass, Phil (ISS Atlanta) (Nov 09)
- RE: Infected jpeg files? Thor (Nov 09)
- Re: Infected jpeg files? Oliver Bleutgen (Nov 11)
- strange thing happend to me Sould3mon (Nov 12)
- RE: strange thing happend to me Oliver Petruzel (Nov 12)
- strange thing happend to me Sould3mon (Nov 12)
- Re: Infected jpeg files? Pete Simpson (Nov 12)