out of office auto replies (was Re: Mock Penentration Test Site)

[Tim <tim-pentest () sentinelchicken org>]

I just posted the message below, and received over 20 responses from
people's out of office auto-responders and from people whose mailboxes
are no longer valid, etc.

1.  People: please stop pissing in the pool.  If you don't know how to
    configure your auto-responders to ignore list mail, then don't use
    them at all.  They are a danger to yourself and others, as they
    advertize to the world what you use for mail, and they can be great
    targets for mail loops via spoofing.

2.  Moderator(s): would you mind sending out a test message once a month
    or so, and fish out the email addresses that are blasting posters'
    inboxes?  I know they do this on other Security Focus lists.

thanks for your cooperation,
tim



On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:42:17AM -0400, Tim wrote:
> > I am trying to create a Red Teaming Exercise and I was wondering if
> > anyone knows of a full site I can download that will.  Anything will
> > do as an example, with CGI, PHP, JSP , ASP, forms and database.
> > Basically anything that will resemble a real site with real
> > vulnerabilities.  i dotn have the time to build a fully functioning
> > site from scratch and no one at work wants to give me one.  Can anyone
> > help? 
>
> Well, you could always set up an installation of PHPNuke or PHPbb.  They
> seem to have plenty of holes in them already for you to exploit... ;-)
>
> Even if their current versions are well-patched, I am sure it would be
> easy to slip in a few XSS and SQL injection holes.
>
> tim


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