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RE: myspace hack
From: Jeff Robertson <Jeff.Robertson () DigitalInsight com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:55:06 -0400
The name "XSS" does not make sense in a lot of its applications. What "Stored XSS" and "Reflected XSS" have in common is the injection of script into places where script wasn't supposed to be. Having more than one site be involved is not the factor. What has been discussed in this thread seems to me like it falls under "Stored XSS". It would make more sense if this was called "script injection", but for some reason the whole family was named XSS. Who the heck names these things, anyway? Jeff Robertson Manager of Web Application Security Digital Insight
-----Original Message----- From: Reynolds, Jake [mailto:Jake.Reynolds () fishnetsecurity com] Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 10:30 To: Chris Varenhorst; Akash Cc: webappsec () securityfocus com Subject: RE: myspace hack I wouldn't consider this an XSS attack. Where in the attack did information cross sites? This seems like it is an embedded XSS attack in that a malicious script was entered into a profile in hopes that victims would view and execute it. However, nothing was sent across sites via the script. The vulnerability was a lack of output validation in my opinion, which is the same vulnerability that an XSS attack would exploit. I don't know how you would classify the attack... Probably "self-replicating session riding". Yeah that has a nice FUD-factor to it. Jake Reynolds, CCIE, CCSP, MCSE, CCSA, JNCIA-FWV, CWNA Senior Security Engineer -- Consulting Services FishNet Security Phone: 816.421.6611 Toll Free: 888.732.9406 Fax: 816.421.6677 http://www.fishnetsecurity.com -----Original Message----- From: Chris Varenhorst [mailto:varenc () MIT EDU] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 8:39 AM To: Akash Cc: webappsec () securityfocus com Subject: Re: myspace hack Oh wow I'm wrong, I'm apparently thinking of current myspace bots which do as I described. It looks this was in fact made possible by an XSS vulnerability. Sorry On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Chris Varenhorst wrote:This isn't hacking at all. (at least not what I'd call it) This is writing a script to go through myspace IDs (whichhappen to besquential) issuing friend requests to every one of them. To prevent this, now myspace limits friend requests to a certainnumber per day.Hope that covers it! -Chris On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Akash wrote:Does anyone has more technical details about how 1million accountsgot hacked in about 24 hours. This is the supposed confession of the hacker http://fast.info/myspace/ I currently studying for CEH and just finished reading about XSS. So this is of special interest. regards akash
Current thread:
- Re: myspace hack, (continued)
- Re: myspace hack rSYN (Oct 13)
- RE: myspace hack Reynolds, Jake (Oct 14)
- Re: myspace hack Stephen de Vries (Oct 14)
- RE: myspace hack Radoslav Vasilev (Oct 14)
- RE: myspace hack Andrew Chong (Oct 14)
- Re: myspace hack Stephen de Vries (Oct 14)
- Re: myspace hack Tim Brown (Oct 14)
- Re: myspace hack bugtraq (Oct 14)
- Re: myspace hack Tom Gallagher (Oct 14)
- Re: myspace hack Disco Jonny (Oct 14)
- RE: myspace hack Jeff Robertson (Oct 14)
- RE: myspace hack Richard M. Smith (Oct 14)
- RE: myspace hack Reynolds, Jake (Oct 14)
- RE: myspace hack Jeff Robertson (Oct 14)
- Re: myspace hack bugtraq (Oct 14)
- Re: myspace hack (readable javascript code ) A. Fontes (Oct 14)
- Re: myspace hack (History of XSS) Jeremiah Grossman (Oct 14)
- RE: myspace hack Evans, Arian (Oct 14)