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Re: Setting the record straight on "The Return of Koobface"
From: J Roger <securityhocus () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:28:33 -0700
This reads as "waaa i noticed this first and didn't think much of it but now that someone else is making a big deal, i want my credit". Maybe you reported on it first on your blog, with a single sentence that wasn't even the primary focus of the post. Regardless if an up rise in koobface is significantly news worthy or not, you apparently failed to draw enough attention (or the right attention) to it at the time. In other words, maybe you did it first, but someone else did it better. What's more valuable to an enterprise, someone that quickly writes a risk assessment that's so sloppy the management with authority to act on the findings don't even bother to read it, or someone that takes the time to write a report on the same findings that actually speaks to the business and be able to make positive changes happen. You talk about being bitter towards the security industry (which IS understandable) but maybe it's time to reflect back a little on yourself. Maybe it's not ALL the industries fault. Maybe the sources of your bitterness have a little something to do with your inability to make enough of the right things happen. Sure you're a "Big Time Security Professional", but maybe your blog wasn't enough to get the word out. Maybe you felt it wasn't even worth getting the word out or sounding any alarms. If that's the case though, don't go back now and try to take credit. On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Mr. Hinky Dink <dink () mrhinkydink com>wrote:
Today I ran across this article... http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/articles/20100320160620/Article/index_html ... in which it is noted that Kaspersky Labs "recently discovered the resurgence of the malicious programme (Koobface) and sounded the alarm." Gentlemen, I beg to differ. I first mentioned the resurgence of Koobface on February 23rd, 2010 here... http://proxyobsession.net/?p=827 I admit I did not "sound the alarm". I simply lol'd because Koobface is one sign of the EPIC FAIL of the security industry. Just ask Dancho Danchev. He's made quite a name for himself by doing absolutely nothing worthwhile about Koobface except raising his won blood pressure spewing vitriol about "The Koobface Gang" (sorry, Danny, but I'm not part of "the gang". I'm just another BlogSpot loser). For those wondering, I am not a hacker. I am a Big Time Security Professional (you may remember me if you Google "Websense Policy Bypass" - unfortuantely those bastards at Warner Brothers killed the soundtrack to my YouTube video). But I am at heart a skeptic, disappointed at what the security industry has become. I created my Proxy List (http://www.mrhinkydink.com/proxies.htm) two years ago as a tool for an as yet unpublished paper on open SOCKS proxies in the wild. It has had the unintended side effect of tracking the spread of Koobface, since Kooberz proxies exclusively (until this month) appear on TCP port 8085. And it has tracked it quite well. I'd like to take this opportunity to say "Hello" (no, not "GREETZ") to all the Cameroonian Puppy Scammers (papa Dollars, STARVO, Dabbleed, et. al.) who abuse my proxy list. Enough is enough. Get a real job, fellas. http://proxyobession.net http://mrhinkydink.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/mrhinkydink : (Follow me! I have no friends!) : _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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Current thread:
- Setting the record straight on "The Return of Koobface" Mr. Hinky Dink (Mar 20)
- Re: Setting the record straight on "The Return of Koobface" J Roger (Mar 20)
- Re: Setting the record straight on "The Return ofKoobface" Mr. Hinky Dink (Mar 20)
- Re: Setting the record straight on "The Return ofKoobface" J Roger (Mar 21)
- Re: Setting the record straight on "The Return ofKoobface" Mr. Hinky Dink (Mar 20)
- Re: Setting the record straight on "The Return of Koobface" J Roger (Mar 20)