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Turning Attackers' Tools Against Them

Posted by kdawson on from the back-bearings dept.

Tasha26 writes "The BBC has an interesting Web security snippet from the SyScan 2010 security conference in Singapore. In a presentation, security researcher Laurent Oudot released details of bugs found in commonly used attack kits such as Neon, Eleonore, and Sniper. These loopholes could be exploited to get more information about the attackers, perhaps identifying them, stealing their tools and methods, or even following the trail back to their own computer."

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  1. Re:Time for hacker bounty hunter! by tnok85 · · Score: 4, Funny
    In a special two hour edition of Dog the Bounty Hunter, Dog gets his first Macbook and hacks his way to take down his target!

    *watches two hours of Dog learning to search for people on FaceBook*

  2. But did he do "responsible disclosure"... by John+Hasler · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...or did he behave irresponsibly and publish the bugs without giving the vendors time to issue patches?

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  3. In other news... by nacturation · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news, researchers learn that script kiddies tend not to be very good software developers.

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  4. Re:Time for hacker bounty hunter! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ahh I except your woosh in that situation.