full-disclosure - Re: Skype account + IM history hijack vulnerability

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Message-Id: <5D989F38-AF45-4D60-A407-311871D22C82@b3nji.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:09:02 +0000
From: Benji <me@...ji.com>
To: klondike <klondike@...ndike.es>
Cc: "full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Skype account + IM history hijack
	vulnerability

Furthermore, I didn't say you we're talking about a '0day'. It was an example. 

Re never seeing anyone call it user enumeration; do you live in a cave of some sort? This is what all a) major tools classify it as b) cve issuings classifies it as c) major infosec providers such as pentest companies.



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On 15 Nov 2012, at 18:59, klondike <klondike@...ndike.es> wrote:

> El 15/11/12 09:47, Benji escribió:
>> Sometimes when people argue over the definition of '0day', it is important to be clear.
> I never called my attack a 0-day, did I?
>> Although the bash script made it clear, I have never ever seen someone call 'user enumeration' an 'oracle attack'.
> Turns out I have never seen anybody call an 'oracle attack' 'user
> enumeration'.
>> Probably because this is 2012 and the Matrix hasn't just come out.
> Probably because the attack won't give you the whole list of usernames
> but instead tell you which e-mails (not necessarily being an username)
> on your list are on its list. Also turns out the concept of oracle has
> been in use on the computation world way before you think and before the
> OWASP guys arbitrarily decided such a name in, amongst others, the
> complexity theorems that keep the cryptography used nowadays secure, so,
> please, stop acting childishly over something as stupid as the name of
> the attack and concentrate instead on the exposed issue.
> 
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