RE: Pre-Scanning for Marketing

["David Ball" <lostinvietnam () hotmail com>]

You only have to read up on the Adrian Lamo/NY Times affair in 2004 to 
realise how this approach could go badly wrong.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.04/hacker.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Password Crackers, Inc. [mailto:pwcrack () pwcrack com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:11 AM
> To: pen-test () securityfocus com
> Subject: Pre-Scanning for Marketing
>
> I am interested if anyone on the list has ever tested or implemented a
> marketing program that involved pre-scanning (wired or wireless) a
> prospect
> and then sending a letter or email describing potential vulnerabilities
> and
> offering assistance in closing these vulnerabilities.  I have never done
> this because of the anticipated negative reaction, but I am curious as
> to
> what the outcome was if anyone else has done it.  Single instances would
> be
> interesting, but I am more curious if anyone has implemented this in a
> more
> broad-based way and has positive and/or negative response rate
> statistics.
>
> Bob Weiss
> Password Crackers, Inc.
>
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Hackers are concentrating their efforts on attacking applications on your 
website. Up to 75% of cyber attacks are launched on shopping carts, forms, 
login pages, dynamic content etc. Firewalls, SSL and locked-down servers are 
futile against web application hacking. Check your website for vulnerabilities 
to SQL injection, Cross site scripting and other web attacks before hackers do! 
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