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Tips for not looking stupid on TV?


From: genesiswave at gmail.com (James Costello)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:33:49 -0500

So now you are "literally" a hacker -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAIww1VRY7Y - literally

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek at irongeek.com>wrote:

Well, they took very little of what I said, and played up the voyeur aspect
(I told them webcams were not that big a worry, but drive by bot installs
were). Also, I'm currently now being hired as a pentester, so the part about
me being hired to break into other boxes is not quite accurate. Still, it
could have been worse:


http://www.whas11.com/home/Eyes-on-you-Beware-Internet-hackers-on-your-webcam-92464624.html



Thanks,
Adrian



On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek at irongeek.com>wrote:

Mick and Robin, Thanks. Russ, I'm looking into Espia now.


Adrian

  On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Butturini, Russell <
Russell.Butturini at healthways.com> wrote:

  Meterpreter plus the espia plugins would probably make for a good
demo.

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        I'm guessing the reported just did a Google search for
Louisville and hacking and came up with me. He basically asked " I?m writing
to see if you would like to help me with a story we?re doing. It is about a
hole in Microsoft security in Internet Explorer that allows hackers to spy
on people through their webcams.  Is it possible? How does it work? And can
you show us for the purposes of a story?" I was not aware of anything
specific to webcams and IE, but he sent me a clipping and I think he was
basing it on this:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelSias#p/u/11/8DtgG58aIBw

I told him:

1. Looks like they are relating it to Operation Aurora.

2. It's not really Web cam specific, any vulnerability that say it allows
for "arbitrary code execution" could do the same thing.

3. Most of the buzz seems to be talking about IE 6, which it pretty out
of date. However, some corporations still run int because it it what their
webapps support.

4. The specific vulnerability is CVE-2010-0249 and code for the exploit
can be found here:
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/11167

5. Microsoft has release a patch for it:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-002.mspx

6. If a user is silly enough to run a random exe a website/email/p2p
network gives them, they will likely get "owned" regardless of the whither
on not there is an exploit.

7. There are programs out their that can be used to monitor others. An
exploit that allows for "arbitrary code execution" can install one in
theory, but so could a snooping significant other.

8. Google hacking/Google dorks are always fun. Basically, people put
devices on an Internet facing LAN that should not. Beside webcams, you can
also fine printers and other devices. Try these Google searches:

intitle:"Live View / ? AXIS"
inurl:/cgi/ieng
inurl:hp/device/this.LCDispatcher

Or a big list from here:
http://www.hackersforcharity.org/ghdb/?function=summary&cat=18


Any tips on how to best deal with the media? Is there a webcam related IE
exploit out there I'm not aware of, or is is just a case of "one of the
things people can do with arbitrary code execution"?

Thanks,
Adrian



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