full-disclosure - Re: Re: George Bush appoints a 9 year old to be the chairperson of the Information Security Deportment

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:45:09 +1200
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Re: George Bush appoints a 9 year old to be the
	chairperson of the Information Security Deportment

Denis Jedig wrote:

> Are there any documented cases on "serious" (i.e. not for scientific
> research or fun, but profit) desinformation or propaganda campaigns using
> XSS for their purposes? Some weird US pre-election stuff maybe?

You think the spammers and phishers that use Google's, Yahoo's, MSN's, 
etc, etc open reidrecters to obfuscate their target URLs are _not_ 
doing it for profit?  You think their objective in using URLs 
encompassing those open redirectors is _not_ disinformation?

Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/