Re:More media distortion
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BO2K cracked
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Sorry to say so, but we have an original CD that was thrown out to the crowd at DEFcon, and it was infected with CIH. (I worked this weekend various BO2K related items @ ISS)
I really could give a shit about the virus. It does l0pht (these guys are in both cDc and the so-called white knights of hackers) more harm than ISS or anyone else who got an infected CD.
We may lose a few machines (I doubt), but the credibility of their intention with this "Remote Administration Tool" just went in the trashcan.
We heard from people who are friends with the Cow that the virus was purposefully put there.
Don't think their isn't some degree of media distortion from everyone involved. Starting with cDc.
The point they have proved is that they can easily divert everyone's attention away from the real security issues of Windows NT on a silly trojan.
It is an exercise in social engineering, or using other security holes to get trojans onto the system.
And this is released under Open Source. So any hacker group can try and bring the world of Windows to its knees with a new trojan mutation for the next year.
BO2K has very little to do with Windows security.
It is very easy to feel smug and comfortable and take pot shots at the cDc/M$/ISS press releases.
Security is something we all constantly need to be aware of; With the amount of Open Source software that is being developed and released, and the breakneck speed of Red Hat distributions, there are a number of security holes in Linux that could easily be exploited by a "Remote Administration Tool", even though the Unix/Linux model doesn't raise too many eyebrows in regard to security.
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Sorry to say so, but we have an original CD that was thrown out to the crowd at DEFcon, and it was infected with CIH. (I worked this weekend various BO2K related items @ ISS)
I really could give a shit about the virus. It does l0pht (these guys are in both cDc and the so-called white knights of hackers) more harm than ISS or anyone else who got an infected CD.
We may lose a few machines (I doubt), but the credibility of their intention with this "Remote Administration Tool" just went in the trashcan.
We heard from people who are friends with the Cow that the virus was purposefully put there.
Don't think their isn't some degree of media distortion from everyone involved. Starting with cDc.
The point they have proved is that they can easily divert everyone's attention away from the real security issues of Windows NT on a silly trojan.
It is an exercise in social engineering, or using other security holes to get trojans onto the system.
And this is released under Open Source. So any hacker group can try and bring the world of Windows to its knees with a new trojan mutation for the next year.
BO2K has very little to do with Windows security.
It is very easy to feel smug and comfortable and take pot shots at the cDc/M$/ISS press releases.
Security is something we all constantly need to be aware of; With the amount of Open Source software that is being developed and released, and the breakneck speed of Red Hat distributions, there are a number of security holes in Linux that could easily be exploited by a "Remote Administration Tool", even though the Unix/Linux model doesn't raise too many eyebrows in regard to security.
Here is BellSouth's PR release on this.
r /26702.vtml
http://209.207.238.30/proactive/documents/rende
Now what are the odds that the trial will be in MY neighborhood? Probably slim.