full-disclosure - Exploiting a Worm

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Message-ID: <200509132310.j8DNAnFf000973@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Wed Sep 14 00:12:09 2005
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: Exploiting a Worm 

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:01:17 BST, Paul Farrow said:
> Another thing you could do is install an anti-virus app or by some other 
> means identify the worm that is active and possibly get a variant 
> version id.
> Find out how the worm installs itself, reverse engineer it, and remove it.

If he's doing a pen test, the problem is "convince a PHB that having a zombie
on the net is bad, and the PHB requires a "show me" demo before accepting it"...

So unless he can rub the PHB's face in it ("See?  this zombie on this secretary's
desk will let a hacker in Eastern Europe whack our payroll database...."), the
site probably won't actually do anything about the security practices that let
a machine get whacked by whatever worm it was....
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