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All your routers are belong to us
by Major Variola (ret) 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Take da subway, its da bomb LAS VEGAS--Cisco Systems has taken legal action to keep a researcher from further discussing a hack into its router software. The networking giant and Internet Security Systems jointly filed a request Wednesday for a temporary restraining order against Michael Lynn and the organizers of the Black Hat security conference. The motion came after Lynn showed in a presentation how attackers could take over Cisco routers--a problem that he said could bring the Internet to its knees. The filing in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California asks the court to prevent Lynn and Black Hat from "further disclosing proprietary information belonging to Cisco and ISS," said John Noh, a Cisco spokesman. "It is our belief that the information that Lynn presented at Black Hat this morning is information that was illegally obtained and violated our intellectual property rights," Noh added. Lynn decompiled Cisco's software for his research and by doing so violated the company's rights, Noh said. The legal moves came Wednesday afternoon, only hours after Lynn gave the talk at the Black Hat security conference here. Lynn told the audience that he had quit his job as a researcher at ISS to deliver the presentation, after ISS had decided to pull the session. Notes on the vulnerability and the talk, "The Holy Grail: Cisco IOS Shellcode and Remote Execution," were removed from the conference proceedings, leaving a gap in the thick book. Lynn outlined how to run attack code on Cisco's Internetwork Operating System by exploiting a known security flaw in IOS. The software runs on Cisco routers, which make up the infrastructure of the Internet. A widespread attack could badly hurt the Internet, he said. The actual flaw he exploited for his attack was reported to Cisco and has been fixed in recent releases of IOS, experts attending Black Hat said. The ISS research team, including Lynn, on Monday decided to cancel the presentation, Chris Rouland, chief technology officer at ISS, said in an interview. "It wasn't ready yet," he said. Lynn resigned from ISS on Wednesday morning and delivered the presentation anyway, Rouland added. Lynn presented ISS research while he was no longer an employee, Rouland said. Adding to the controversy, a source close to the Black Hat organization said that it wasn't ISS and Lynn who wanted to cancel the presentation, but Cisco. Lynn was asked to give a different talk, one on Voice over Internet Protocol security, the source said. But ISS' Rouland said there "was never a VoIP presentation" and that Wednesday's session was supposed to be cancelled altogether. "The research is very important, and the underlying work is important, but we need to work with Cisco to determine the full impact," Rouland said. Previous Next Cisco was involved in pulling the presentation, a source close to the company said. The networking giant had discussions with ISS and they mutually agreed that the research was not yet fully baked, the source said. The demonstration on Wednesday showed an attack on a directly connected router, not a remote attack over the Internet. "You could bring down your own router, but not a remote one," Rouland said. One Black Hat attendee said he was impressed with Lynn's presentation. "He got a shell really easy and showed a basic outline how to do it. A lot of folks have said this could not be done, and he sat up there and did it," said Darryl Taylor, a security researcher. "Shell" is a command prompt that gives control over the operating system. Noh said that Lynn's presentation did not disclose information about a new security vulnerability or new security flaws. "His research explored possible ways to expand the exploitation of existing vulnerabilities affecting routers," the Cisco spokesman said. Cisco has patched several flaws in IOS over the past year. Last year, the San Jose, Calif., networking giant said that part of the IOS source code had been stolen, raising fears of more security bugs being found. On Wednesday, Noh reiterated the company's usual advice that customers upgrade their software to the latest versions to mitigate vulnerabilities. Following his presentation, Lynn displayed his resume to the audience and announced he was looking for a job. Lynn was not available for comment. Representatives of the Black Hat organization said the researcher was meeting with lawyers.

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by Eugen Leitl 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

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Privacy Guru Locks Down VOIP
by Eugen Leitl 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

http://wired.com/news/print/0,1294,68306,00.html Privacy Guru Locks Down VOIP By Kim Zetter Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68306,00.html 10:20 AM Jul. 26, 2005 PT First there was PGP e-mail. Then there was PGPfone for modems. Now Phil Zimmermann, creator of the wildly popular Pretty Good Privacy e-mail encryption program, is debuting his new project, which he hopes will do for internet phone calls what PGP did for e-mail. Zimmermann has developed a prototype program for encrypting voice over internet protocol, or VOIP, which he will announce at the BlackHat security conference in Las Vegas this week. Like PGP and PGPfone, which he created as human rights tools for people around the world to communicate without fear of government eavesdropping, Zimmermann hopes his new program will restore some of the civil liberties that have been lost in recent years and help businesses shield themselves against corporate espionage. VOIP, or internet telephony, allows people to speak to each other through their computers using a microphone or phone. But because VOIP uses broadband networks to transmit calls, conversations are vulnerable to eavesdropping in the same way that e-mail and other internet traffic is open to snoops. Attackers can also hijack calls and reroute them to a different number. Few people consider these risks, however, when they switch to VOIP. "Years ago, people kind of stumbled into e-mail without really thinking about security," Zimmermann said. "I think that what's happening today with VOIP is that we're kind of stumbling into it (as well) without thinking about security." People don't think about it, he said, because they're used to phone calls being secure on the regular phone system -- known as the Public Switched Telephone Network. "The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, (while) the internet is like a crime-ridden slum," Zimmermann said. "To move all of our phone calls from the PSTN to the internet seems foolish without protecting it." Interest in VOIP is growing rapidly because the user pays less for the service and pays no long-distance toll charges. Some services are free. According to one recent survey, 11 million people worldwide use a subscription VOIP service, compared to only 5 million in 2004, and at least another 35 million use free VOIP services. That leaves a lot of people potentially open to eavesdropping. It's not as easy to eavesdrop on VOIP as it is to intercept and read e-mail. Phone conversations aren't stored or backed up where an attacker can access them, so the conversations have to be captured as they occur. But a program available for free on the internet already allows intruders to do just that. Using the tool, someone with access to a local VOIP network could capture traffic, convert it to an audio file and replay the voice conversation. The program is called Voice Over Misconfigured Internet Telephones, a name clearly chosen for its catchy acronym -- VOMIT. Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer of Counterpane Internet Security and author of the Crypto-Gram newsletter, said that the need for VOIP encryption is a given. "If you're concerned about eavesdropping, then encryption is how you defend against it," he said. "And it's not that hard to do. It's just a matter of writing the code." But David Endler, chairman of the VOIP Security Alliance industry group and director of security research at TippingPoint, said a protocol for encrypting and protecting VOIP data already exists and companies are starting to make VOIP phones that support the protocol. But he said that people typically don't enable the encryption option. "Probably because we're not seeing attacks yet," he said. He said most users are less concerned with eavesdropping than with having VOIP service that provides the same quality and reliability that they expect from regular phone service. "Some people can see clearly that there's a need for this, and others wonder if anyone cares about protecting phone calls," Zimmermann said. "But those are the same people who wondered why anyone would want to protect e-mail. I think as people gain experience with VOIP they're going to have a great appreciation for the need to come up with extra measures to protect it." Endler also said that companies using VOIP are reluctant to implement encryption because of the overhead involved in managing the public key infrastructure, or PKI. "You have to be able to store a key on most of these end points," he said. PKI requires two keys for encryption: a public key that a user gives to anyone who wishes to communicate with him or her, and a private key, which decrypts messages that the user receives. That won't be a problem with Zimmermann's system, which doesn't use PKI. Zimmermann said PKI is unnecessarily complex for VOIP. "There's no need to centrally manage public key infrastructure to make a phone call, in my view," he said. He won't elaborate on how his system works but is preparing a protocol document that will describe it in detail, which he'll post on the internet when the program is ready. The program is currently only a working prototype and still has non-security bugs that need to be worked out. For example, sometimes the program fails to hang up after a call, forcing the user to exit the program to end the call. It's designed for a Mac, but will be adapted for PCs before Zimmermann makes it available for download. He's looking for investors to back a startup company that will support the product and oversee its distribution. Zimmermann envisions it both as an add-on for manufacturers to put into VOIP phones and as a software client that users can install on their laptop to use when they don't have a VOIP phone with them. Both parties in a conversation will need to have the software on their phone or computer. If only one person has it, the call will still go through but it won't be encrypted. It's been a while since Zimmermann came out with a new encryption product. He released PGP in 1991; it was another five years before he released PGPfone to encrypt data passing between modems. Who could blame him for laying low for a while after the Justice Department launched a three-year criminal investigation of him in 1993? Officials accused him of violating a ban on exporting cryptography when he made PGP available for download on the internet. The government finally dropped its investigation in 1996. The export laws were relaxed in 2000, so at least they're no longer a problem. "There's a lot more crypto in the computer industry now than there was in the '90s," Zimmermann said. "And there's not much authorities can do about it now because we went through this struggle with them in the '90s and we won." Zimmermann isn't taking chances, however. He worked closely with a law firm that specializes in export controls and filed the required paperwork with the Commerce Department notifying the government that his product exists. Still, he delayed producing VOIP encryption after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, because the climate wasn't right. "I was concerned that maybe this would attract some criticism," Zimmermann said. "I just felt that maybe the government had their hands full with enough problems, and I also needed to concentrate on other consulting projects to make money." Zimmermann received hate mail after 9/11 from people who accused him of aiding the attackers by creating a program that allowed terrorists and criminals to shield their correspondence from authorities. The Washington Post erroneously reported shortly after the attacks that Zimmermann was overwhelmed with guilt over the possibility that terrorists might have used PGP to plan their attacks. What he actually said was that he was sorry if al-Qaida used the program, but that this was the trade-off for having a tool that could protect everyone's privacy -- some people would use it with malicious intent. Overall, he said, the world was better off with cryptography in the hands of the masses rather than just in the hands of government. Zimmermann is hoping people will accept his new program with the spirit in which he created it. "Because there are a lot of people who are concerned about the erosion of civil liberties that the Patriot Act brought," Zimmermann said. "I'm hoping that more people would approve of this project than disapprove." Ultimately, however, he said that his encryption program was not about politics, but about the need for protecting critical infrastructure. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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go for the head shot -they're wearing puffy jackets
by Major Variola (ret) 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Now that the UK got a little feedback for their empire assist, its amusing (in a black, american kinda way) to see them demonstrate their lack of a first amendment. The papers are filled with brits calling for state coercion against their own citizens for their opinions. Naturally, the sheeple will trade liberty for pseudo-security. Which is cooler? A somali surrounded by men with guns, which he figures are mugging him, and who gets shot when he tries to give them his wallet; or a brazilian who gets shot when he thinks he's being mugged by similar anglos with guns? The somali got a few dozen holes, the brazilian less than a dozen, I guess that's the british reluctance to use guns :-) As G Gordon Liddy said, go for the head shot. They're wearing body armor. Or a special vest. Or just a puffy jacket. Whatever. Who knew Orwell was *such* an optimist? Or that the Bill of Rights made such excellent toilet paper? BTW, how do you say "enriched" in Korean?

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Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:15:11 -0400 Chadwick Fox
by Connie Franklin 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

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[Clips] Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment
by R.A. Hettinga 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: clips(a)philodox.com Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:08:30 -0400 To: Philodox Clips List <clips(a)philodox.com> From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: [Clips] Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment Reply-To: rah(a)philodox.com Sender: clips-bounces(a)philodox.com <http://mosnews.com/news/2005/07/25/spammerdead.shtml> - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment Created: 25.07.2005 13:14 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:24 MSK, 16 hours 33 minutes ago MosNews Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head. Kushnir, 35, headed the English learning centers the Center for American English, the New York English Centre and the Centre for Spoken English, all known to have aggressive Internet advertising policies in which millions of e-mails were sent every day. In the past angry Internet users have targeted the American English centre by publishing the Center's telephone numbers anywhere on the Web to provoke telephone calls. The Center's telephone was advertised as a contact number for cheap sex services, or bargain real estate sales. Another attack involved hundreds of people making phone calls to the American English Center and sending it numerous e-mails back, but Vardan Kushnir remained sure of his right to spam, saying it was what e-mails were for. Under Russian law, spamming is not considered illegal, although lawmakers are working on legal projects that could protect Russian Internet users like they do in Europe and the U.S. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' _______________________________________________ Clips mailing list Clips(a)philodox.com http://www.philodox.com/mailman/listinfo/clips --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Re: Well, they got what they want...
by John Kelsey 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

>From: Tyler Durden <camera_lumina(a)hotmail.com> >Sent: Jul 23, 2005 9:17 PM >To: steve49152(a)yahoo.ca, cypherpunks(a)jfet.org >Subject: Re: Well, they got what they want... ... >Saw a local security expert on the news, and he stated the >obvious: Random earches and whatnot are going to do zero >for someone determined, but "might" deter someone who was >"thinking about" blowing up the A train. In other words, >everyone here in NYC knows that we've given up a lot for >the sake of the appearence of security, but no one seems to >give a damn. I think the reality is a bit different. The random searches won't keep someone who's planning an attack from trying to carry it out, but it may delay their attack, if they made plans based on the old security setup, not the new one. It may also convince them to shift the attack to a new target. --John

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Unbelievable Investors Information
by Kenton Wiley 24 Jul '05

24 Jul '05

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by Nichols 24 Jul '05

24 Jul '05

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RE: Is it a MicroCap Bonanza?
by Ahmad Mobley 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

Southwestern Medical Solutions, Inc. (SWNM) A development-stage company targeted at the multibillion-dollar medical devices business. Current Price: 0.11 Will it Continue Higher? Watch This One Monday as We Know Many of You Like Momentum. Breaking News!! High International Markets Interest in SWMS's LabguardT Southwestern Medical Solutions, Inc. (SWNM) announced that continuing successful clinical trials of its proprietary Labguard TM Diagnostic systems and ongoing medical device development has attracted significant interest from numerous worldwide medical distribution organizations. The Worldwide Distribution Of SWMS Products During the past several months, SWMS has receeived much interest from a wide array of governmental bodies from various countries as well as medical device distributors for the international markets. Vice President of New Product Development, Mr. Richard Powell, noted, "As announced previously, we are currently developing the LabguardT product for OEM license to major national distributors. Concurrently, we have been in discussions with world players on the international distribution scene. We believe we have found our business solutions partner for Canada and will make an official announcement once this is finalized. Other major markets are being pursued." With a growing marketing capability groomed for the Company's initial product launch of the LabguardT Diagnostic Testing systems, SWMS management believes that the Company represents strong potential as a volume manufacturing/sales company. The complete product line, encompassing a wide array of medical diagnostics tests, will begin its prototype testing once the initial LabguardT product is officially launched. The Company is focused on improvements in the disposable instruments/diagnostic and surgical equipment fields and holds patents and patent pending rights to several medica| breakthr0ugh products. Poised For Launch Into Worldwide Healthcare Markets Currently involved in clinical investigative studies for its patent protected LabguardT systems, Southwestern Medical Solutions continues to develop exciting advancements in products for the healthcare community. With the exclusive rights to produce and distribute the patented Protect-A-PalT safe syringe systems, and its potential entrance into the Hydrotherapy market, as well as disposable surgical devices, SWNM is poised to gain a strong market presence and build a healthy portfolio of high demand products. Conclusion: The Examples Above Show The Awesome, Earning Potential of Little Known Companies That Explode Onto Investor's Radar Screens; Many of You Are Already Familiar with This. Is SWNM Poised and Positioned to Do that For You? Then You May Feel the Time Has Come to Act... And Please Watch this One Trade Monday! Go SWNM. Penny stocks are considered highly speculative and may be unsuitable for all but very aggressive investors. This Profile is not in any way affiliated with the featured company. We were compensated 3000 dollars to distribute this report. This report is for entertainment and advertising purposes only and should not be used as investment advice. If you wish to stop future mailings, or if you feel you have been wrongfully placed in our membership, send a blank e mail with No Thanks in the sub ject to daily_10tip @yahoo.com

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