Re: Looking for help against Chinese Hacking Team

["David Glosser" <david.glosser () gmail com>]

1.Have you used a web application scanning tool against your web site
which specifically tests for sql injection and cross site scripting
(not sure what "pen
test product" means)?
2.Have you identified the sql injection entry point? It should be in
your IIS logs.
3.Have you identified the source IP networks? Can they be blocked at
your firewall?
4.Can you place a web application firewall in front of your web
servers? (URLScan is free for IIS, or you can run a linux proxy server
with mod_security in front of your IIS servers - The OS, apache, and
mod_security are free, there would only be hardware costs.
5. Do you have an IDS or IPS in front of your servers as well as
monitoring your database servers?  Snort has a minimal cost.
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Serg B <sergeslists () gmail com> wrote:
> Few hundred dollars is not going to get you far...
>
> Instead of blowing the cash on pen-testing, and one-size-fits-all
> (because vendor told me) security software; how about you get your
> systems administrator to audit your web server log files and trace the
> vulnerability that way.
>
> Again: Get your awesome systems administrator to look through log
> files, to identify which files are vulnerable (something he or she
> should have been doing in the first place).
>
> These links may help:
> http://www.bloombit.com/Articles/2008/05/ASCII-Encoded-Binary-String-Automated-SQL-Injection.aspx
> http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4844&rss
>
> Also, this sounds like an SQL worm prorogation, not a targeted attack
> which I understood from your email.
>
>
> Cheers
>   Serg
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 11:59 AM, harveyfrank <joet () ticadvisors com> wrote:
> > We've been battling the Chinese for several months now and have gone through
> > several waves of US  security experts who have failed to stop them. In their
> > defense, we are not on an unlimited budget and they've gotten us to a point
> > where it looks as though somewhere among the site's 400 scripts is a SQL
> > injection vulnerability.
> >
> > Automated testing by a few pen test products seems to think we're fine. We
> > definitely are not.
> >
> > Is it possible to hire a CEH to find the Chinese-discovered vulnerability
> > for a few hundred dollars? (We aren't just being cheap, we've blown our wad
> > on security that hasn't worked.) Would someone with intimate knowledge of
> > the latest wave of Chinese attacks be required for this job? Besides our
> > first rate security team that's just been beat, I've tried the $200 pen test
> > folks and they have all failed. Microsoft security help has also failed.
> >
> > Advice (Besides porting to Linux)? Help?
> > --
> > View this message in context: 
> > http://www.nabble.com/Looking-for-help-against-Chinese-Hacking-Team-tp20986210p20986210.html
> > Sent from the Penetration Testing mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> >
> >
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