full-disclosure - Re: lots of connections to 64.40.117.19 port 80

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Message-ID: <23559.1208531501@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:11:41 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Joey Mengele <joey.mengele@...hmail.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: lots of connections to 64.40.117.19 port 80

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:01:26 EDT, Joey Mengele said:
> I believe you are missing something. XSS is merely a type of 
> vulnerability. It is very common for an XSS payload to include a 
> DDoS component. If you had done your research before retorting you 
> would have known this.

Yes, but although we have evidence that a DDoS of some sort is underway,
we have *ZERO*, *ZIP*, *ZILTCH*, *GOOSE-EGG* indication that an XSS was
involved.  For all you know, it was an iframe injection into clients that
visited a compromised webserver that downloaded the DDoS tool.

Sounds more like a "textbook case of calling it an XSS because when you only
have a hammer everything looks like a nail".

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