Friday, August 03, 2007

Java Exploits On the Rise? Read this.

I am really curious how much Microsoft stock Larry Seltzer owns.

In his latest article: Java Exploits on the Rise he is reporting Java exploits in a rather curious way.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2161797,00.asp

First all he is talking about the Apple Quicktime implementation in Java. I am not sure the details of this but if there is an application written in a particular language and it has a flaw, typically that is an issue that should be blamed on the application developer, not the language which they chose to implement the application in, right? Perhaps the underlying flaw was a Java bug, but the orginal article he references states:

As in one of the two QuickTime flaws that Apple fixed on May 29, the pwn-2-own hole fixed earlier in the month involved a problem with implementation of QuickTime for Java that allowed reading or writing out of the bounds of the allocated heap, and it also worked by enticing a user to visit a site containing a maliciously crafted Java applet.

"An implementation of " meaning the bug was in the implementation of the application - not in the software language used to implement the application. Right? Let's be clear about what is actually happening in this case. From the words above it is not clear if the error was caused by poorly written application code or Java itself.

On the other points:

#1 I agree with this article stating that Sun's handling of the release of a security patch was somewhat problematic:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/10/sun_java_security_update/

#2 The flaw of a buffer overrun in the JavaWeb start app: was this flaw a result of programming done in Java (Java itself does not allow buffer overruns so I doubt this very much). After testing out a download on the sun web site which utilizes at least some component of the Java Web Start app I get this message:

This web site wants to run the following add-on: Java (TM) Web Start active x control from Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Note: this is an Active X control. It is not required to run Java applications. It is a tool to help keep Java applications up to date. In this case it is platform specific technology, so if this flaw is related to this component of running Java it is due to an improperly written Active X control (microsoft technology) or something in the Java Web Start active X control utilizing an underlying OS component to display images, not Java as a programming langage - at least for this Windows component. I would guess in this case it was written in C/C++ and compiled in native languages for each OS, and that is how the same bug got propagated to Linux and Solaris as well but cannot know for sure. Because it was not written in Java most likey that is the source of the buffer overrun, not Java itself.

#3 As for the image parsing flaw:

Consider the recent vulnerability in Java's image parsing code.

followed up by:

The parsing of data coming out of files seems to be a never-ending source of security issues in all platforms.

Yes image parsing is a source of security flaws on all platforms - and more than one report has come out on image parsing by various Microsoft technologies including Office. Java does not claim to prevent all image parsing flaws in and of itself. Some of this would be up to the application developer to validate input and output. Additionally since images are actually displayed by the OS (Microsoft - GDI) I would question - is it not up to the OS to validate the image? I am not sure but since all applications use the OS to display images and the OS sends the data to an output device for human visability - then I would recommend that this error checking be done on an OS level. BUT. I am not an OS developer. This occurs on all platforms - so I am guessing this needs to be handled by the app given that info.

The fact that Java is used to write malware is more like a compliment to the language than a detriment. Hacks can be written in any language. Perhaps Java is used because it offers more fine grained control over the environment and is more reliable and takes advantage of the fact it runs on any OS. HMM???

Also for the malware he referenced - that is not a Java flaw but an application written in Java that someone would have to download and run - just as they would have to run malware on any windows machine. You can write a piece of malware in windows technology and email it to someone and if they run it and it deletes their entire hard drive - is that a flaw in the technologies used to write the exploit? Please do not mince words and twist reality into an article designed to create a big headline where people get an idea in their head and don't read the details.

And finally, the most outrageous part of this article, is that he is referencing an exploit on the Symantec web site which references an OCX -- a Microsoft technology. An active X control. Also, the article references JavaScript. Have you ever heard the statement "JavaScript is not Java?" JavaScript runs client side, not server side. JavaScript was used in the exploit - it was not exploited. The Javascript mentioned at the beginning of the article is used to exploit Microsoft IE bugs and is an old, known exploit. The bottom of the article summarizing the new exploit and further clarifies that this is a Microsoft browser flaw - not a Java exploit:

The good news is that the vulnerability exploited in this attack was already patched by MS06-067; the bad news is that malware authors now know and will use this new technique. Heap Feng Shui really takes heap exploitation for browsers to the next level and it’s a powerful method that allows the creation of more efficient and reliable exploits in the future.

Yes there are flaws in Java as with any programming language including this very serious flaw in Java Web Start:

http://www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/5UP010UM0G.html

Every language has holes and will continue to be exploited just as banks are still robbed. However I still think Java provides a lot more control over your environment to manage security - unless you are running on Windows in which case you have to rely on the Windows OS for some aspects of security - which can be good and bad. If you are not an OS developer, Microsoft pours more money into OS development than you could do alone and you may be better off, though Linux is cheaper and for OS developers they will have more total control of the environment and Linux has proven to be more secure in some apsects than Windows.

However everything is ultimately exploitable and constant analysis is needed - no matter which language or OS you choose.

Audit the auditors

I keep repeating in this blog...audit everything. Audit your auditing software. Audit your security auditors. Audit audit audit.

And software cannot do EVERYTHING for you. Some brains and analytics need to be involved in any good security policy:

Audit your security software

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

DNS Bind Vulnerability

I saw headline reporting a DNS Bind vulnerability. Make sure you have the latest updates for your DNS Bind servers.

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Core Security Patterns

I was reading a book called core Security Patterns from Sun today and in the introduction chapter in this book they state:

"A Gartner Group report [CSO online] estimates that employees of companies are responsible for more than 70% of the unauthorized access to information systems in those companies. It is also employees of companies who perpetrate more than 95% of information systems intrusions that cause significant financial losses."

So when I ask - do you just "trust" your managed data center employees like the managed hosting companies would like you to do? No. Audit everything. If they cannot provide an audit trail to explicitly define who accessed your server on what time and day and what they did - you'll need to keep your password to yourself and manage access to your server and do your own auditing -- don't use that company.

And for all those companies that swear up and down that they are invincible and secure, I say no one is ever 100% secure and constant auditing and monitoring is needed. Case in point, this book says:

"According to an FBI survey [eWeek] of 500 companies, 90 percent say they'd had a computer security breach, and 80 percent of those said they'd suffered a financial loss as a result."

There are more reports an examples in the book as well as a good list of security patterns for those who use a programming language that allows you to, in my opinion, have more control over your environment such as with a Java web server. I say that because you cannot get the IIS source code...

Anyway the book for anyone who wants to read it again is:

Core Security Patterns from Sun by Christopher Steel, Ramesh, Nagappan and Ray Lai

Even if you don't program in Java it seems that some of the information could apply to any web application.

I haven't read the whole book so I cannot say how useful it is yet.

Friday, July 13, 2007

Network Solutions SSL Certificate Instructions - Java Web Server

It is really annoying that the Java web server ssl instructions on the Network Solutions web site have been wrong for over 4 months.
I also wonder what the security implications are that they send people SSL certificates in email.
Here are the correct instructions:

Installing Your Network Solutions SSL Certificate on Java Based Web Servers
There are 4 certificates that you will receive from Network Solutions:

1. AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt
2. UTNAddTrustServer_CA.crt
3. NetworkSolutions_CA.crt
4. yourdomainname.crt

These must be imported in the correct order:

1. AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt
2. UTNAddTrustServer_CA.crt
3. NetworkSolutions_CA.crt
4. yourdomainname.crt

Use the keytool command to import the certificates as follows:
keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias root -file AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt -keystore domain.key

Use the same process for the UTNAddTrustServer_CA.crt certificate using the keytool command:
keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias utnaddtrustserverca -file UTNAddTrustServer_CA.crt -keystore domain.key

Use the same process for the NetworkSolutions_CA.crt certificate using the keytool command:
keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias networksolutionsca -file NetworkSolutions_CA.crt -keystore domain.key

Use the same process for the site certificate using the keytool command, if you are using an alias then please include the alias command in the string.
Example:
keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias yyy (where yyy is the alias specified during CSR creation) -file yourdomainname.crt -keystore domain.key
The password is then requested.
Enter keystore password: (This is the one used during CSR creation) After the password is entered information will be displayed about the certificate and you will be asked if you want to trust it.
Trust this certificate? [no]:
(The default is no so type 'y' or 'yes')
Then an information message will display as follows:
Certificate was added to keystore
All of the certificates are now loaded.

Anti-virus software: Chinese vs. Russian

Looks like two anti-virus vendors are attacking each other:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/071207-update-gloves-come-off-in.html?nlhtsec=0709securityalert5&

There are other options developed in the US.

Kapersky itself was embedded into a piece of malware that removed other malware from computers so who knows what is the underlying cause of all this.

This article makes it sound like you have a choice between one or the other - you don't. There are other vendors that have been doing this longer in the US.

Thursday, July 12, 2007

A list of known bots

Not sure how old this is but here is a list of known bots from a random ranting user:


Bot not obeying the Rules

This bot does not appear to be obeying robots.txt

Unversity of Illinois192.17.0.0 - 192.17.255.255MQBOT/Nutch-0.9-dev (MQBOT Nutch Crawler; http://falcon.cs.uiuc.edu; mqbot@cs.uiuc.edu)

/instmsg/aliases/orders

We are still getting hits for this URL on our server from various IPs:

/instmsg/aliases/orders

I wrote about this in another post.

RedBot

Here's a new bot:

RedBot/redbot-1.0 (Rediff.com Crawler; redbot at rediff dot com)

Seems to be some India related web site.

Doesn't say how to block it in robots.txt at first glance.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

IEMB3 may be hacked

Whatever this is: IEMB3 may be hacked, or it may be a coincidence that this is running on a machine that appears to be scanning our sites in un-normal-web-visitor-like or hacker-like ways.

Cazoodle

Looks like the Cazoodle bot has moved to the University of Illinois. I thought this one was running out of China before:

CazoodleBot/Nutch-0.9-dev (CazoodleBot Crawler; http://www.cazoodle.com/cazoodlebot; cazoodlebot@cazoodle.com)

OrgName: University of Illinois OrgID: UIUCAddress: 1120 DCL, MC-256Address: 1304 West Springfield AvenueCity: UrbanaStateProv: ILPostalCode: 61801Country: USNetRange: 72.36.64.0 - 72.36.127.255

Bell Canada

This IP at Bell Canada is trying to be sneaky about surfing the net. Something to hide?

67.68.135.71

Bell Canada BELLNEXXIA-11 (NET-67-68-0-0-1) 67.68.0.0 - 67.71.255.255HSE HSE020924-CA (NET-67-68-0-0-2) 67.68.0.0 - 67.68.255.255

1-800-HOSTING

An IP at 1-800-HOSTING continues to attempt to surf our web sites. Why would a web server be surfing our web sites?

69.41.185.18

OrgName: 1-800-HOSTING, Inc.OrgID: 1800HAddress: 3509 Oak Lawn AveCity: DALLASStateProv: TXPostalCode: 75219Country: US
NetRange: 69.41.160.0 - 69.41.191.255

Ask Jeeves not identifying itself

An Ask Jeeves machine is not correctly identifying itself as the ask search engine in the User-Agent string when requesting robots.txt

MCI Communications Services, Inc. d/b/a Verizon Business UUNET65 (NET-65-192-0-0-1) 65.192.0.0 - 65.223.255.255AskJeeves, Inc. UU-65-214-36 (NET-65-214-36-0-1) 65.214.36.0 - 65.214.39.255

Interland, Inc.

Someone on Interland, Inc.'s network (Atlanta, GA) is hitting our site with a bot.

64.239.7.216

OrgName: Interland, Inc.OrgID: INTDAddress: 101 Marietta StreetCity: AtlantaStateProv: GAPostalCode: 30039Country: US
NetRange: 64.239.0.0 - 64.239.127.255

Bay Area Internet Solutions

Bay Area Internet Solutions is hitting our site with some sort of bot.

OrgName: Bay Area Internet Solutions OrgID: BAYAAddress: 2650 San Thomas ExpresswayCity: Santa ClaraStateProv: CAPostalCode: 95051Country: USNetRange: 72.20.96.0 - 72.20.127.255

Server4You - Germany

We are still getting unwanted hits from this hosting facility.

inetnum: 85.25.129.0 - 85.25.148.255descr: SERVER4YOU Dedicated Server Hostingdescr: http://www.server4you.denetname: SERVER4YOU-1country: DE

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Internet Crime - Summary Of Issues - 2007

This is a bit in the past but I missed it and it is very interesting in summing up the issues with Internet Crime: http://searchsecuritychannel.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid97_gci1248099,00.html

Monday, July 09, 2007

Hits from Czech Data Center

This doesn't look right - hits from a data center...

inetnum: 81.31.32.0 - 81.31.35.255netname: MASTER1descr: Master Internet s.r.o.descr: server housing Brno, Cejlcountry: CZ

Bot coming from this IP: 80.194.189.66

Here's another bot snooping around - 80.194.189.66

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Sunday, July 08, 2007

PHP hacker - everyone's internet - 66.98.228.8

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66.98.228.8
/phpadsnew/adxmlrpc.php
7/7/2007 15:28
66.98.228.8
/Ads/adxmlrpc.php
7/7/2007 15:28
66.98.228.8
/phpads/adxmlrpc.php
7/7/2007 15:28
66.98.228.8
/adxmlrpc.php
7/7/2007 15:28
66.98.228.8
/phpadsnew/adxmlrpc.php
7/7/2007 15:28
66.98.228.8
/phpads/adxmlrpc.php
7/7/2007 15:28
66.98.228.8
/phpAdsNew/adxmlrpc.php
7/7/2007 15:28
66.98.228.8
/phpadsnew/adxmlrpc.php
7/7/2007 15:28
66.98.228.8
/adserver/adxmlrpc.php
7/7/2007 15:28
66.98.228.8
/phpAdsNew/adxmlrpc.php
7/7/2007 15:28
66.98.228.8
/phpAdsNew/adxmlrpc.php
7/7/2007 15:28
66.98.228.8
/adxmlrpc.php
7/7/2007 15:28
66.98.228.8
/adserver/adxmlrpc.php
7/7/2007 15:28
66.98.228.8
/adserver/adxmlrpc.php
7/7/2007 15:28
66.98.228.8
/adxmlrpc.php
7/7/2007 15:28
66.98.228.8
/adxmlrpc.php
7/7/2007 15:01
66.98.228.8
/community/chat/messagesL.php3
7/7/2007 15:01
66.98.228.8
/chat3/chat/messagesL.php3
7/7/2007 15:01
66.98.228.8
/chat2/chat/messagesL.php3
7/7/2007 15:01
66.98.228.8
/forums/chat/messagesL.php3
7/7/2007 15:01
66.98.228.8
/chat1/chat/messagesL.php3
7/7/2007 15:01
66.98.228.8
/phpMyChat-0.14.4/chat/messagesL.php3
7/7/2007 15:01
66.98.228.8
/phpMyChat-0.14.3/chat/messagesL.php3
7/7/2007 15:01
66.98.228.8
/phpMyChat/chat/messagesL.php3
7/7/2007 15:01
66.98.228.8
/phpMyChat-0.14.5/chat/messagesL.php3
7/7/2007 15:01
66.98.228.8
/phpMyChat-0.14.2/chat/messagesL.php3
7/7/2007 15:01
66.98.228.8
/php/phpmychat/chat/messagesL.php3
7/7/2007 15:01
66.98.228.8
/forum/chat/messagesL.php3
7/7/2007 15:01
66.98.228.8
/chats/chat/messagesL.php3
7/7/2007 15:01
66.98.228.8
/chatroom/chat/messagesL.php3
7/7/2007 15:01
66.98.228.8
/PhpMyChat/chat/messagesL.php3
7/7/2007 15:01
66.98.228.8
/phpchat/chat/messagesL.php3
7/7/2007 15:01
66.98.228.8
/chat/chat/messagesL.php3
7/7/2007 15:01
66.98.228.8
/chat/messagesL.php3

Thursday, July 05, 2007

Blatant hacker: SERVER4YOU network

Here's a blatantly hacking IP from the Server4You network in Germany:

85.25.138.126

This IP hit our sites over 200 separate times in one day

inetnum: 85.25.129.0 - 85.25.148.255descr: SERVER4YOU Dedicated Server Hostingdescr: http://www.server4you.denetname: SERVER4YOU-1country: DE

Network Admins Not Paying Attention To Traffic

Hmm. Interesting.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=349

Not sure I agree however. I don't know if this person understands exactly what was done in this case and yes, it should have been done sooner, but the fact is prior to this network admins didn't pay attention to traffic much at all unless it took down a machine. The fact that the government is involved and looking at the problem is a major step forward as we all know how long it takes to get the government moving...business has financial motivation. The government is pushed by voters and many voters don't even understand what is going on. So I say go Microsoft, go FBI and keep going - do more. Catch them and start whacking people with fines and putting them in jail the same way the Enron guys were put in jail - as an example to all and yes you will pay. But make the price high.

The note about cutting off criminal resources is interesting. Yes we can and should do more about this problem, but at least someone "gets it" and it is a step in the right direction. That's my take.

And as for the last line, yeah right. I'm going to let some ex (supposedly) hacker "fix" my machine. Time for a reality check.

Monday, July 02, 2007

Definitely a Hacker from Romania

This is definitely a hacker in Romania:

inetnum: 89.42.140.0 - 89.42.141.255netname: SC-ALIENSTATION-SRLdescr: SC AlienStation SRLdescr: B-dul Ferdinand, Nr. 56descr: Constanta Constanta 900693country: ro

Looks like they are scanning our sites and possibly stealing the content and posting it elsewhere - potentially they have found a way to hack DNS.

Null IP addresses in logs

I would like to know how someone is able to get a null IP address into our logs. I would like to make this not possible and to stop. All web server vendors need to look into this. Of course we have backup logging that handles this issue.

And see my last post for the matching IP address. Not sure which one but one of those generated this:

[30/06/2007:01:48:36 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2" -

Noc4Host servers visiting again

Noc4Hosts is an IP range you might want to block out at the firewall level for web servers. Servers in their IP ranges are visiting again.

Products from China

Was just reading a report in the paper that said 100% of the 24 defective toys recalled in the US this year came from China. Also there was some toothpaste infected with poison coming from China which was distributed to US prisons.

Friday, June 29, 2007

PHP bomber: 81.149.56.227

This IP 81.149.56.227 was bombing our server today looking for PHP hacks.

Servervault

There are web sites hosted by this hosting company that have bogus information on them...someone may want to explore this:

OrgName: Servervault OrgID: SVLT Address: 1506 Moran Road City: Dulles StateProv: VA PostalCode: 20166 Country: US ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.servervault.com:4321 NetRange: 216.12.128.0 - 216.12.159.255

Network Solutions Validation Flaws

It looks like there is an imposter company in Princeton Junction, New Jersey trying to impersonate a valid company in Seattle, Washington - Radical Software, Inc. Radical Software, Inc. has been in business since 1998 and partners with major solid companies that have been in business for a long time and are major players in the web industry.

The imposter company is listed on a bunch of spammy web sites that are detracting from the business of the valid company. The imposter company was even listed in Hoovers and D & B databases -- which are used to by Network Solutions to validate SSL certificates.

Do you see a HUGE problem here? This is it: some company gets bogus records into the much flawed D & B records - D & B had company addresses that were six years old in this database. Also anyone can call in and change company records pretty easily. So Network Solutions uses these very inaccurate databases to validate SSL certificates and back them with a $1 Million Guarantee - and because the records are flawed it is a real pain in the you know what for the legitimate companies to actually get SSL certificates because D & B is showing records for some imposter company.

Using a marketing database that anyone can call in and update is a pretty flawed way of validating a company is legitmate. Additionally they use the state records to validate and companies typically have a separate address for power of attorney which may not match their billing and mailing addresses for the actual company. Using these things to validate the company is also flawed.

Also recently someone was able to change my banking records to send my mail to an old PO box. If someone could get my banking records to go to an old mailbox and pick up my mail they can send in the bank statements to validate the company with Network Solutions. The whole way Network Solutiongs is doing their validation is completely flawed.

Why can't they use verified by Visa or the billing address on the credit card that and the information on the actual web site that the person owns? Also since I have other SSL certificates which I registered with them recently and already sent in validation for that- why can't they look at the history - both to validate and to invalidate rip off requests?

There has to be some better form of validation, though I am not exactly sure what it is. I just know the current forms of validation are not the best.

Thursday, June 28, 2007

131.107.0.73

This IP is searching on odd things nad not quite sure how they were directed to our site from these links...


http://sailingseattle.com/catering.htm
131.107.0.73
http://search.live.com/result.aspx?q=buspar&mrt=en-us&FORM=LVSP
131.107.0.95
http://search.live.com/result.aspx?q=keno&mrt=en-us&FORM=LVSP
131.107.0.95
http://search.live.com/result.aspx?q=nissan&mrt=en-us&FORM=LVSP
131.107.0.95
http://search.live.com/result.aspx?q=porche&mrt=en-us&FORM=LVSP
131.107.0.95
http://search.live.com/result.aspx?q=tenuate&mrt=en-us&FORM=LVSP
131.107.0.95
http://search.live.com/result.aspx?q=amitriptyline&mrt=en-us&FORM=LVSP
131.107.0.96
http://search.live.com/result.aspx?q=blowjob&mrt=en-us&FORM=LVSP
131.107.0.96
http://search.live.com/result.aspx?q=hydrocodone&mrt=en-us&FORM=LVSP
131.107.0.96
http://search.live.com/result.aspx?q=milf&mrt=en-us&FORM=LVSP
131.107.0.96
http://search.live.com/result.aspx?q=tramadol&mrt=en-us&FORM=LVSP
131.107.0.96
http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-09,GGLD:en&q=low+carb+lunches
131.170.90.4

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Cross Site Request Forgeries

Another cross site attack...the kind I was assured by my hosting providers could not possibly exist:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2151154,00.asp

http://shiflett.org/articles/cross-site-request-forgeries

http://4diggers.blogspot.com/

67.40.220.161

This IP is at it again. It just requested this URL from our shopping cart system:

/instmsg/aliases/orders

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

instmsg/aliases/orders 67.40.220.161

Hmm, here's a new one.

This IP: 67.40.220.161 from Qwest

is trying to access this URI

instmsg/aliases/orders

on our shopping cart system.

I found this on the Microsoft web site:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278974

Noc4Hosts bombing our server

Someone at this IP address was just attempting to access our server. Since this is a data center related company in Florida I am not sure why they would be trying to access a local service business in California. Seems a bit fishy doesn't it?

66.232.97.32

OrgName: NOC4Hosts Inc. OrgID: NOC4HAddress: 400 N Tampa StAddress: #1025City: TampaStateProv: FLPostalCode: 33602Country: USReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.noc4hosts.com:4321/NetRange: 66.232.96.0 - 66.232.127.255

Monday, June 25, 2007

XSL Transformations and Client Side Calculations

In a recent edition of Dr. Dobb's Journal (May 2007) a couple of programmers from Turkey explain how to do client side mathematical calculations using XIM and XSLT transformations. This, they explain, is a way to offload some processing to the client side computer.

Yes, this all sounds lovely but I'm sure that most smart e-commerce programmers would instantly recognize that you should not leave any important calculations to the client side of the e-commerce process where it can be manipulated, either by the end user, or by a hacker that has infected his or her machine.

I was going to note that I've always had a somewhat significant amount of traffic from Turkey, by the way, which I find odd given what I am hosting.

Programmer beware - don't jump on everything you read as the next best thing. Consider the pros, cons and appropriate usages of each new technology option. And if you are not entirely sure how it works within your application framework, best check that out before rushing to implementation.

RackSpace potential hacker

This IP is snooping around on our servers - it is coming from a RackSpace data center:

It is either a bot or a hacker since this is not an end user computer:

207.97.207.39 resolves to"navigatormultimedia.com"
Top Level Domain: "navigatormultimedia.com"

OrgName: Rackspace.com, Ltd. OrgID: RSPCAddress: 9725 Datapoint DriveAddress: Suite 100City: San AntonioStateProv: TXPostalCode: 78229Country: USNetRange: 207.97.192.0 - 207.97.255.255

Friday, June 22, 2007

Are you worried yet?

I have been writing in this blog about the need for increased security and government involvement to resolve these problems. I have been writing that these problems are bigger than people realize and affect each and every one of us - our security, our salary, our bank accounts, credit cards, identities and our online purchases.

Today the pentagon was hacked:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/062107-pentagon-shuts-down-systems-after.html?nlhtsec=0618securityalert5

Ok it happens. But how long has this been going on I wonder?

And even worse...our secretary of state says "I'm a very low-tech person."

If the government doesn't get it that they need someone who understands Internet security at the top of the chain - then we are all in big trouble. He better get high-tech or at least tech savvy pretty soon or we are all in big trouble.

Kapersky Wants to Give Awards to Hackers

Kapersky wants to give awards to hackers:

http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2007/06/the_kaspersky_malware_awards_1.php

Not a fan. These people do not deserve awards and they probably thrive on the attention. Shame on any news organization that publishes these things. These people do not need to be given attention as if they have performed some great feat. They need to be put in jail and shown to all the world that they are hated, despised criminals that will be punished.

Kapersky says who knows malware better than the people who fight it. I say who knows malware better than the people who WRITE it.

Hmm so the logic goes if A=B and B=C then A = B. Oh never mind.

Just audit everything. Everything.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

AOL Bot

Someone on this AOL IP: 172.203.88.173 is pounding our site with the MJ12 bot - 6/21/07 10:28 a.m.

Following right on it's heels - this known hacker IP was attempting to reach the web server: 8.7.22.195

Shortly before we were hit multiple times by a known hacker IP range: 207.36.201.40

Firefox spyware

Hmm, related to my last post about IE acting all weird, I moved to Firefox and while using the Google web site got a message that it appears I have spyware on my machine. Perhaps messing up IE will get me to switch to Firefox and then... Downloading spybot now...

IPhone not secure

Hmm...this article claims the hot new iPhone is not really secure:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/061907-apple-iphone-gartner.html?nlhtsec=0618securityalert4&

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Google Security API

This is interesting - Google has a security API that can be incorporated into software programs to blacklist malicious URLS:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,133069-page,1/article.html

Spammers and Hackers - Going to Jail

It's about time:
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2007/06/more_phishers_and_spammers_in_1.php

Microsoft - Security Opinion

I am not 100% in agreement with this person. He claims he would "never blame Microsoft" because many apps are not written by Microsoft.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/16266&nlhtsec=0618securityalert1&

I disagree. There is a certain level of security that needs to be provided at the operating system level that is beyond the application itself, and in some cases the people who own the system did not even intend to install the software, or the software is doing something other than it's intended purpose. My point here is the operating system has certain "responsibilities" shall we say to manage all these applications and it should prevent some rogue activity and provide appropriate monitoring of things it will not necessarily block so users can easily see what is happening on their system.

Additionally Microsoft does write some of these programs and has responsibility to ensure they are secure and fix any new security breaches. This is not necessarily blaming - it is a fact, however.

Additionally Microsoft needs to delve deeply into the security of things that allow communication across servers such as RPC and DCOM. I have had someone hacking on my server using these technologies - I don't even use them. Microsoft needs to ensure these cannot be used unless the server owner specifically requests to open up these channels in and out of their servers or provide some huge warning if they are open and available.

These are the areas where I would blame Microsoft if there is a security breach, or at least where they can improve and help ensure security.

Microsoft actually can have a competitive advantage over other operating systems that are open source because they have the resources, if they so choose, to pour into security on systems and provide a more cohesive solution than an open source software platform. However some people will always choose open source due the cost issue and the ability to reprogram parts of the OS if needed.

Where to report Internet Crime...

So you've been hacked, spammed, ripped off and defrauded...now what?

Here are some tips....

Here are some useful links for reporting fraud: Internet Fraud

You can report crimes at the Internet Crime Complaint center:
Internet Crime Complaint Center

If it is a crime by someone within the US, there is a link on the FBI web site.

If it is a crime committed by someone outside of the US you may want to report it to the CIA and related web sites.

You can report your hacker traffic trends at SANS Institute. The more people submit firewall logs the more information they have to analyze and compile research to help thwart hackers.

For spam you can report it in some cases to your local government officials. Some states have laws against spam and will prosecute so try your state prosecuting attorney's office. You can also report to anti-spam organizations that go after and try to prosecute spammers such as Spam Cop. Here are some good links: How to Report Spam In the case of spam if you know how to look at email headers, report the spam to the offending network - and not just the local network if it is a company - but the larger network such as AT&T, Comcast or SBC.

In the case of bots and extraneous network traffic report the excessive traffic to the offending network, same as above and the server owner if possible. In some cases you can find out the owner of a computer by doing a reverse look up on the IP address to get the domain name. You can also use tools like DNSStuff.com to look up an IP address and find out the abuse email of the offending network. Send them your logs so they have accurate information with time and date to track down the offending person or malware infected machine.

Make sure you report known bugs and affected software to the vendors that make the hardware and software that may be the source of the problem. The more people that report the problem the better the chance it will be solved.

Write to your local, state, and federal representives for issues such as fraud, identity theft, hacking and spam so they understand and address your concerns. Some of these issues on the international level require government knowledge, diplomacy, more approriate laws and better law enforcement to be resolved.

More useful links on reporting Internet crime:

Report fraud here: http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/cyberfraud/tellus.htm and read more about it here: http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/Internet_Fraud.shtml or here: http://www.fbi.gov/majcases/fraud/internetschemes.htm

CyberCrime: http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/
http://wiki.castlecops.com/Reporting_Internet_Crime:_The_United_States_of_America

Internet Scams: http://www.scambusters.org/

Reporting Internet Crime in the UK: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crime-victims/reducing-crime/internet-crime/

IFrame Hack Job

Over 10,000 legitimate web sites using IFrames were exploited and used to download malicious software to end user computers.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/061907-italian-job-web-attack.html

Monday, June 18, 2007

PHP Hackers - 2007 to date

Count IP Requested Page Month
36 205.247.203.14 /PHPMYadmin/main.php 6
20 205.247.203.14 /myADMIN/main.php 6
8 205.247.203.14 /mysql-admin/main.phpmain.php 6
8 205.247.203.14 /pma/main.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /PMA/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /pmamy/main.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /admin/mysql/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /admin/phpmyadmin/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /admin/pma/main.phpmain.php 6
4 217.71.214.163 /cacti//graph_image.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /db/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /mysql/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.2.3/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.2.7-pl1/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.2.7/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.7.0/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.9.1/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpmyadmin2/main.phpmain.php 6
4 217.71.214.163 //graph_image.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /web/phpMyAdmin/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /mysqladmin/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.2.0/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.2.6/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.5.1/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.5.4/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.5.6/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.6.4-pl4/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.6.4/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.7.0-pl2/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.8.1/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.8.2.1/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.8.2.2/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.8.2.4/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.9.0.1/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.9.0.2/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpMyAdmin-2.9.0/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpmyadmin/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /phpmyadmin/test.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /admin/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /dbadmin/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /myadmin/main.phpmain.php 6
4 205.247.203.14 /main.phpmain.php 6
2 87.106.103.182 /include/include_top.php 6
1 130.39.11.106 /index.php 6
1 218.127.216.28 /index.php 6
1 219.254.1.163 /index.php 6
1 67.82.106.110 /index.php 6
1 87.228.58.238 /index.php 6
1 122.16.74.92 /profile.php 6
1 220.102.115.237 /profile.php 6
1 67.84.237.55 /profile.php 6
1 68.102.105.73 /profile.php 6
1 68.197.29.166 /profile.php 6
1 68.226.166.235 /register.php 6
1 61.47.47.58 //index.php 6
1 195.222.29.132 //forum/admin/index.php 6
1 172.177.4.5 /index.php 6
1 24.210.154.219 /index.php 6
1 24.250.199.114 /index.php 6
1 64.178.157.212 /index.php 6
1 68.42.187.199 /index.php 6
1 70.161.19.176 /index.php 6
1 222.66.48.253 /profile.php 6
1 68.40.241.80 /profile.php 6
1 72.137.246.167 /profile.php 6
1 72.187.132.166 /profile.php 6
1 213.113.230.166 /register.php 6
1 61.102.25.233 /register.php 6
1 61.157.96.36 /register.php 6
1 65.75.109.219 /register.php 6
1 68.102.172.102 /register.php 6
1 68.94.231.55 /register.php 6
1 72.188.93.47 /register.php 6
1 86.107.156.115 /register.php 6

71.13.115.117 - Charter - Bot

71.13.115.117 is running a bot that continues to hit our sites after asking Charter for months to make it stop.

Charter Communications MDS-WI-71-13-112 (NET-71-13-112-0-1) 71.13.112.0 - 71.13.119.255Charter Communications CC04 (NET-71-8-0-0-1) 71.8.0.0 - 71.15.255.255

CONTINENTAL BROADBAND PENNSYLVANIA, INC. - HACKER

There's a hacker at this location attempting to access our sites with ColdFusion:

OrgName: CONTINENTAL BROADBAND PENNSYLVANIA, INC. OrgID: CBP-17Address: 810 Parish StCity: PittsburghStateProv: PAPostalCode: 15220Country: USNetRange: 208.40.128.0 - 208.40.207.255

IP Address: 208.40.131.148

New Horizons - Major Hacking

We are getting major hacking from this network on this IP: 205.247.203.14

OrgName: New Horizons OrgID: NEWHOR-1Address: 1231 E Dyer Rd, Ste 140City: Santa AnaStateProv: CAPostalCode: 92705Country: USNetRange: 205.247.203.0 - 205.247.203.255

They have requestsed PHP admin pages in over 200 sessions this month so far alone.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Another Hacker - CenturyTel

This appears also to be someone hacking: 69.179.76.130 at CentryTel in Louisiana at 6/13/2007 12:55:48 PM.

Hacker - Comcast in Miami

Someone on Comcast in Miami at this IP address: 76.109.211.88 was attempting to hack our e-commerce sites by passing invalid data to our application and causing a null pointer exception. The issue has been fixed. I hope someone will monitor the activities of the user of this IP address at 6/15/2007 3:14:59 PM

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Botnets - Scourge of the Internet

SWEET. Finally big companies and the governement are honing in on this issue. It is about time and I am so happy to hear it:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/061307-fbi-operation-bot-roast.html?nlhtsec=0611securityalert4

Since starting to uncover the network patterns of spam about 3 years ago when I got sick of 950 spam emails per day I have been sending out messages about how these attacks are coordinated and coming from the servers of large companies...and since then the problem has only gotten worse.

One of my biggest reasons for writing this blog was to get someone - anyone - to take notice of the underlying Internet traffic - good and bad - and do something about it. I got sick of network admins throwing up their hands and telling me I was full of it when my server was hacked or that there was nothing that can be done about it...

This is exactly what we need. We need big businesses involved and the government and even better yet, we need large hosting facilities to analyze their traffic on an anonymous but global basis to determine traffic patterns that are obviously bots and illegal activities.

This is a long awaited happy day...

Thursday, June 07, 2007

National Vulnerability Database

Here's a database of products and their vulnerabilities:

http://nvd.nist.gov/viewvpv.cfm?complete=no&vendor=yes&product=yes&version=no&vendorchar=Omniture

This can be useful when researching whether or not you want to use a particular product - how many times has it been hacked?

Omniture Vulnerabilities

Related to my last two Omniture posts I did a little research on Omniture related vulnerabilities and hacks - this is what I found:

http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2006/Dec/1017392.html

http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-6640

http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2006/Dec/1017392.html

Vulnerability using .gif files

I was talking to my boss about the possibility of an Omniture hack:

http://randominternet.blogspot.com/2007/06/omniture-hacking-again.html

He stated that he's reviewed the code and all they are doing is downloading gif files, and that Omniture is used by large sites like CNN, Amazon and Sun. (Implication: if they use it it must be secure).

My response was: that makes them a great target. Look at the pot of gold at the other end of the rainbow. There are huge user bases for these sites plus people testing and reviewing the code at these companies behind firewalls...

So anyway I said what if the execution of malicious code is in the gif files, not in the JavaScript itself? And my boss says no, they are just simple gif files.

So I thought well, I've seen hacks in image files before let's see what's out there. And I found this:
___________

http://vil.nai.com/vil/Content/v_vul26549.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/912840.mspx

Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Using a Malformed GIF Vulnerability - CVE-2006-1540A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Office using a GIF file. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted Office file that could allow remote code execution. If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less affected than users who operate with administrative user rights.
________

And guess what. If someone could get this onto the Sun web site, that is where everyone goes to download Java - on servers that run e-commerce web sites, application servers, etc. You get the picture.

I have no idea how to test this theory. Maybe someone out there can just verify nothing funky is going on...

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

The problem with your VPN

So you set up a user and you say OK, you can do stuff on the VPN that you cannot do when you're not on the VPN and that makes my server that you are remoting into secure.

Right.

Talking to a firewall administrator today at Datapipe here's how your Cisco Pix really works:

Someone logs into the VPN and gets onto the server. From there they have free reign to do anything your outbound port access allows them to do. If they can get onto the server, they can send all your data to whatever server they want outside that server if your outbound access includes FTP. Apparently if you want to restrict downloading FTP to anyone but, say, and administrative VPN user - you can't do that at the firewall level.

And it also means if you want to allow customers to upload photos, for instance, but not download data, and make their access more secure so only VPN users can upload files, that's not completely solved by a VPN.

Which means you have to count on software - your OS, your applications... and you have to manage via a Windows domain or manage each individual server and cannot globally handle these things at the network level.

And that's scary.

Monday, June 04, 2007

First Data Better Check How Internet Requests are Handled

I sent an email to First Data via their web site with some specific technical questions about processing cards over their platform(s) and integration with certain types of transactions and hardware.

Some fast talking woman just called me who either had no comprehension of my request or she sniped the information somehow from the FirstData database. She was speaking very quickly and told me she was with Express Merchant blah blah blah or something like that. She told me this is some part of First Data. Maybe it is but it is but the way this request was handled was completely innapropriate.

First she asked me if I already have a processor. In my request I stated specific information that would have answered that question. It was pretty clear that she was about to try to sell me something and that is not why I requested information from First Data. Secondly when I said that is not what I requested she said "what was your request?" Excuse me but shouldn't you have the customer's request in front of you when you are calling them to answer the questions in their request?

Basically I already got the information through other means. I had to call First Data and sit on hold forever and talk to five different departments. I had to call my software gateway and go through 3 different people over there to get partial answers. I had in depth conversations with my bank who clearly knows very little how any of this works. Then I called an equipment manufacturer of terminals for their side of the story. They clearly didn't have the big picture either. I was able to piece together the information step by step and probably have a 95% grasp of what I need to know to implement a secure solution for my client - however no thanks to First Data's convoluted phone system or uninformed phone operators, sales people, and technical staff. This is nothing against the people themselves as they are all just doing their job the way they were trained to do it. There is a lack of global understanding in the credit card industry which makes it easier for hackers and harder and more expensive for customers to get things done.

Saturday, June 02, 2007

Wrong Country? DODO

This Ip range lists a country of AP but the contact information is for AU

inetnum: 122.148.0.0 - 122.149.255.255netname: DODO-AUdescr: Layer 2 Broadband Customer Networkcountry: APadmin-c: PR93-APtech-c: PR93-APstatus: ALLOCATED PORTABLEmnt-by: APNIC-HMremarks: Send abuse reports toremarks: abuse@dodo.com.auperson: Paul Rivoliaddress: Dodo Australia Pty Ltdaddress: Level 14 / 600 St Kilda Rdaddress: Melbourneaddress: VIC 3004country: AU

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Omniture Snooping?

Someone was snooping around my local network again. When I took a look there were 3 connections to Google which seemed ok, a connection to a Belgium electronic publishing company which might be ok since I was connected to a technical article, and a connection out on port 80 to Omniture in this IP range:

Omniture TRFR-ORM-UT-OMNITURE-4 (NET-216-194-125-0-1) 216.194.125.0 - 216.194.125.255

The thing is - I never connected to Omniture. The other weird thing is, the company I am working for at the moment is using Ominture. A random internet connection?

regencypacificinc.com surfing the web?

It seems that this web server is surfing the web...
63.236.119.29 resolves to"regencypacificinc.com"
Top Level Domain: "regencypacificinc.com"

Amazon + Nutch again...

Amazon was visiting our sites with Nutch again today.

Amazon scanning my machine again

Why is someone at Amazon scanning my machine with Nutch?

72.44.62.122

ilial/Nutch-0.9 (Ilial, Inc. is a Los Angeles based Internet startup company. For more information please visit http://www.ilial.com/crawler; http://w

OrgName: Amazon.com, Inc.
OrgID: AMAZO-4
Address: Amazon Development Centre South AFrica
Address: 1200 12th Avenue South
City: Seattle
StateProv: WA
PostalCode: 98144
Country: US
NetRange: 72.44.32.0 - 72.44.63.255

Korea Hackers - again

Korea is always a major source of spam and hacking for us.

Today we were bombed by this IP: 222.122.151.181

Looking for PHP hacks.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Hmm. ftp.grede.com hacked?

This IP was surfing our web site...

12.34.44.226 resolves to"ftp.grede.com"
Top Level Domain: "grede.com"

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Google Copied Me

Google copied me. Well they have a bit more resources and some interesting stuff.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2135462,00.asp

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/

Monday, May 28, 2007

Hacker activity from 81.223.153.134

inetnum: 81.223.153.128 - 81.223.153.143netname: Technix-Internetdescr:descr: Technix InternetServices GmbHdescr: Wilhelm Pfeiferdescr: Wiencountry: AT

What is YPC 3.2.0

I am finding this in my logs but cannot figure out what it is in a brief web search. Hopefully someone will post some information about it.

serverpronto hacker

Here's a hacker that is blatantly attempting to bypass our bot checking software:

69.60.115.127

Infolink Information Services Inc. INFOLINK-BLK-101 (NET-69-60-96-0-1) 69.60.96.0 - 69.60.127.255Serverpronto INMM-69-60-114-0 (NET-69-60-114-0-1) 69.60.114.0 - 69.60.125.255

In fact you may want to block out all of these:

Serverpronto INMM-69-60-114-0 (NET-69-60-114-0-1) 69.60.114.0 - 69.60.125.255
Serverpronto INMM-69-60-126-0 (NET-69-60-126-0-1) 69.60.126.0 - 69.60.126.255Serverpronto INMM-64-251-14-0 (NET-64-251-14-0-1) 64.251.14.0 - 64.251.14.255Serverpronto INMM-64-251-22-0 (NET-64-251-22-0-1) 64.251.22.0 - 64.251.22.255
Serverpronto INMM-69-60-127-96 (NET-69-60-127-96-1) 69.60.127.96 - 69.60.127.111ServerPronto INMM-64-251-30-0 (NET-64-251-30-0-1) 64.251.30.0 - 64.251.31.255ServerPronto INMM-64-251-25-0 (NET-64-251-25-0-1) 64.251.25.0 - 64.251.25.255ServerPronto INMM-64-251-1-64 (NET-64-251-1-64-1) 64.251.1.64 - 64.251.1.71ServerPronto INMM-69-60-97-64 (NET-69-60-97-64-1) 69.60.97.64 - 69.60.97.71ServerPronto INMM-69-60-110-0 (NET-69-60-110-0-1) 69.60.110.0 - 69.60.110.255ServerPronto INMM-69-60-111-0 (NET-69-60-111-0-1) 69.60.111.0 - 69.60.111.255ServerPronto INMM-64-251-27-0 (NET-64-251-27-0-1) 64.251.27.0 - 64.251.27.255ServerPronto INMM-69-60-109-0 (NET-69-60-109-0-1) 69.60.109.0 - 69.60.109.255Serverpronto INMM-64-251-10-0 (NET-64-251-10-0-1) 64.251.10.0 - 64.251.10.255Serverpronto INMM-69-60-113-0 (NET-69-60-113-0-1) 69.60.113.0 - 69.60.113.255Serverpronto Shared Firewall INMM-64-251-8-0 (NET-64-251-8-0-1) 64.251.8.0 - 64.251.8.255

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Name Intelligence - Bombing our Sites

Some group called Name Itelligence was boming our sites today.

Not to mention that, some code I clearly changed last night was somehow magically reverted by this morning. I am 100% positive someone hacked both my laptop and my server. It doesn't make any sense. I don't know if this bombing by Name Intelligence is related.

OrgName: Compass Communications, Inc. OrgID: CPCMAddress: 2001 6th AvenueAddress: Suite 3205City: SeattleStateProv: WAPostalCode: 98121Country: USNetRange: 64.246.160.0 - 64.246.191.255

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Related Hacker IPs

There is a good chance that some or all of these IPs are all related hacker IPs (though very possible some are unrelated random internet connections). The reason I say possibly is because all these IPs were blocked by our system in fairly small window:

206.196.111.201
207.8.173.133
66.36.230.11
198.173.15.250
58.61.164.138
209.164.47.89
68.178.25.149
219.72.117.14
206.196.111.201

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Internet Factory - Spain - Looking for a Hack

This IP address: 84.78.106.131

From this network:

inetnum: 84.78.0.0 - 84.79.255.255netname: YACOMNETdescr:descr: Ya.com Internet Factorycountry: es

Was searching Google for the java package that runs our web site.

Log Files Deleted

Someone deleted the log file for web sites yesterday. At least the out-of-the-box log.

Meaning they hacked my web server and were able to edit the contents of a file.

It was most likely one of these IPs - and since it appears an Australian travel related web site was also altered.

67.161.123.184 27 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
66.52.219.150 26 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
202.172.121.86 21 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
70.16.86.239 21 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506)
219.95.201.157 15 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
64.211.119.111 15 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
58.109.25.142 15 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; OptusNetDSL6; FunWebProducts; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
24.18.133.12 14 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
125.63.220.160 12 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; fr; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11
24.19.27.54 12 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
71.197.234.132 12 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
121.72.139.254 11 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
72.86.23.190 10 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070226 Ubuntu/breezy-security Firefox/1.5.0.10
134.7.248.129 10 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
66.212.64.234 9 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
207.225.232.131 9 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
24.18.137.119 9 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
151.41.76.15 8 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; MEGAUPLOAD 1.0; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible ; MSIE 6
60.234.112.149 8 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)
71.231.143.8 8 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)
67.53.216.17 7 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1)
207.190.85.11 7 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
12.144.142.180 7 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
63.83.102.35 7 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
71.231.138.109 7 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
87.112.66.170 7 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
71.227.163.15 6 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.8.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.6
142.167.197.76 6 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
203.33.161.17 6 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
216.41.121.23 6 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
24.22.183.61 6 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
67.168.63.44 6 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11
71.35.174.30 6 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
71.251.36.71 5 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
76.104.198.212 5 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11
76.230.211.202 5 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 3.1)
86.31.17.9 5 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
71.0.106.22 5 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
71.161.6.228 5 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
205.250.69.54 5 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
12.210.86.95 5 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
58.168.241.202 5 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
66.174.92.162 5 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; (R1 1.5); .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
67.171.26.65 5 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
71.212.51.10 5 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
71.212.77.45 4 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/417.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.8
71.197.194.249 4 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
71.112.216.207 4 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)
71.227.163.15 4 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
71.212.92.77 4 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; MSN 9.0;MSN 9.1; MSNbQ002; MSNmen-us; MSNcIA)
71.231.217.113 4 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0)
71.231.114.187 4 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
67.171.29.83 4 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
67.161.103.218 4 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
24.19.34.168 4 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Avant Browser; Avant Browser; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; SpamBlockerUtility 4.8.0)
144.138.23.33 4 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.7
206.196.111.201 4 metatagsdir/0.7 (+http://metatagsdir.com/directory/)
24.12.249.238 4 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0)
24.19.50.158 4 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.2
82.34.178.59 4 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
71.231.0.99 4 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
71.217.78.77 3 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0)
71.35.156.246 3 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Boeing Kit; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
76.22.52.12 3 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
64.231.181.163 3 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)
67.170.102.9 3 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
70.90.186.25 3 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
66.231.189.97 3 Gigabot/2.0 (http://www.gigablast.com/spider.html)
24.19.23.36 3 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11
24.19.242.5 3 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11
193.72.33.241 3 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
124.190.88.237 3 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWebProducts; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
12.72.243.70 3 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
24.16.59.122 3 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
65.102.190.68 3 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506)
71.231.115.2 3 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)
71.121.251.187 3 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
71.212.81.129 3 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
71.196.174.73 2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0)
70.85.114.58 2 Pingdom GIGRIB (http://www.pingdom.com)
68.44.194.30 2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)
69.156.172.6 2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
69.255.17.229 2 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
69.37.76.105 2 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20060912 Netscape/8.1.2
76.106.5.101 2 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
90.242.30.160 2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
65.222.176.122 2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows XP)
64.124.85.71 2 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; BecomeBot/3.0; +http://www.become.com/site_owners.html)
24.17.245.143 2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Windows-Media-Player/10.00.00.3990)
66.235.51.160 2 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
67.168.95.2 2 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
68.230.5.189 2 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
134.7.206.157 2 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
152.163.100.209 2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
192.85.47.2 2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
207.200.116.139 2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
216.82.171.6 2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
219.206.88.11 2 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ja; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
193.35.129.161 2 Opera/9.10 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
12.210.182.93 2 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11
203.109.206.194 2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
200.122.64.108 2 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
212.227.83.83 2
207.200.116.132 2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
207.200.116.73 2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
209.53.232.173 2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
24.18.41.26 2 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
67.161.125.135 2 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
71.121.152.254 2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
65.222.176.125 2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows XP)
84.78.106.131 2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
71.231.200.201 2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPat
71.35.141.83 2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Avant Browser; Avant Browser)
75.92.145.57 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
71.37.27.123 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
72.179.227.82 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
72.254.55.39 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)
71.240.229.185 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.8.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.6
71.231.141.255 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506)
71.212.71.48 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506)
80.254.152.84 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
81.52.143.16 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1) VoilaBot BETA 1.2 (http://www.voila.com/)
76.205.101.176 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
66.180.82.87 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
66.231.188.133 1 Gigabot/2.0 (http://www.gigablast.com/spider.html)
64.235.108.248 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
65.214.39.180 1 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20070308 Minefield/3.0a1
24.22.209.95 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
24.22.218.197 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
60.191.80.224 1 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YodaoBot/1.0; http://www.yodao.com/help/webmaster/spider/; )
62.194.15.193 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
64.12.116.19 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
64.12.116.5 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0)
64.124.85.76 1 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; BecomeBot/3.0; +http://www.become.com/site_owners.html)
64.124.85.77 1 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; BecomeBot/3.0; +http://www.become.com/site_owners.html)
71.13.115.117 1 bot/1.0 (bot; http://; bot@bot.bot)
71.102.99.173 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
71.168.130.247 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
71.172.236.42 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
71.197.164.190 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWebProducts; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1)
66.249.85.85 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
66.36.230.11 1
67.40.25.45 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0)
210.82.118.14 1 favorstarbot/1.0 (+http://favorstar.com/bot.html)
207.200.116.200 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
216.131.91.205 1
24.11.108.250 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
24.174.106.137 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1)
24.18.137.235 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
24.18.230.83 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
24.18.246.181 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
24.18.246.185 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
207.200.116.12 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
203.76.128.203 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
195.4.221.251 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2
12.144.142.180 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
152.163.100.76 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
159.226.26.99 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
18.194.1.206 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11
193.227.227.54 1 nsjmfiurhgrkisulbfmixiholgk ecylus6oi
24.115.225.223 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0)
24.136.66.146 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
24.16.23.32 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
204.130.228.90 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
206.183.1.74 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; T-H-U-N-D-E-R-S-T-O-N-E)
216.160.92.13 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
207.200.116.202 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
207.200.116.8 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
207.200.116.9 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
207.216.51.61 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.1)
206.80.1.253 1 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20070308 Minefield/3.0a1
207.115.68.99 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
207.200.116.137 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
193.35.129.169 1 Opera/9.10 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
193.95.154.69 1 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20070308 Minefield/3.0a1
195.60.64.5 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
202.191.106.20 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)
203.220.203.253 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
159.226.26.98 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
190.42.83.216 1 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.3 (Ubuntu-feisty)
142.68.80.30 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Hotbar 4.5.0.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
144.132.94.218 1 Xenu Link Sleuth 1.2i
125.253.35.241 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
68.32.23.202 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
67.183.147.21 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.3
67.183.220.214 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
67.184.3.163 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
66.24.105.4 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
66.194.6.68 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312469)
64.27.29.45 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible ; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
24.18.186.147 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
24.18.241.84 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; (R1 1.5); .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
24.20.208.213 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 3.1)
64.124.85.73 1 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; BecomeBot/3.0; +http://www.become.com/site_owners.html)
64.124.85.79 1 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; BecomeBot/3.0; +http://www.become.com/site_owners.html)
64.12.117.5 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0)
65.222.176.123 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows XP)
65.243.153.100 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
81.219.27.49 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
82.154.42.127 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
83.116.238.30 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
89.180.32.129 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1)
71.97.249.48 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; IEMB3; InfoPath.1; IEMB3)
72.79.234.67 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
72.88.201.176 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
71.216.15.25 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
71.217.106.179 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
71.227.164.19 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
69.91.157.132 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11
70.215.92.151 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
70.83.131.206 1 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.3 (Ubuntu-feisty)
69.29.198.44 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
68.84.228.60 1 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
71.101.61.14 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0)
71.197.235.80 1 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Naval Surface Warfare Center - connected to/from my laptop?

This is odd. I'm logged into a VPN to a remote server and suddenly my terminal services connection is locking up. I check IPs I am connected to and there's the Google Toolbar notifier so I shut it off. Then my machine seems to free up and I can move the mouse around on the remote server again. But I think that was a coincidence. Shortly thereafter lock up again on my administrator account on the remote machine via Terminal Services. Another look at the IPs my machine is connected to reveals a connection to two Naval Surface Warfare Center IPs on port 80. I have no reason to be connected to these IP addresses. As far as I know I am only connected to my own web server, through the web on port 80, and through a VPN so how the heck is my machine somehow connecting to the these addresses on port 80???

128.38.52.46 and 128.38.52.34

OrgName: Naval Surface Warfare Center OrgID: NSWC-1Address: 17320 Dahlgren RoadAddress: Code XDTCity: DahlgrenStateProv: VAPostalCode: 22448-5000Country: USNetRange: 128.38.0.0 - 128.38.255.255

Friday, May 11, 2007

Organized Crime and Hacking

This article says people are "wondering" if organized crime is involved in hacking.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/050907-fbi-organized-crime-cybercrime.html?nlhtsec=0507securityalert5&

DUH. Obviously this person doesn't know much about what they are writing about.

What is organized crime anyway? Is it organized when someone has a bunch of command and control bots or when there is a whole row of computers in a hut in Nigeria working on money transfer schemes from stolen funds using people who fall for their ploys?

Maybe they only mean a certain type of organized crime - Mafia. Given that the Internet is the absolute easiest way to make a whole tone of money without killing anyone or counting on too many people to get the job done, I would venture to say that any smart criminal organization would be after that pot of gold.

But the flip side of that is the Internet is all about computers and data. Computers don't lie. If the data is tracked by a really smart programmer on the other side of the fence - the good guys will have the data they need to nab the crooks much faster than traditional walking the street and trying to find scared witnesses to testify who are afraid for their lives.

OK maybe I've been watching too many cops and robbers and lawyer movies lately. But I can totally see the possibilities here and it's pretty much been reported already that certain criminal and terrorist organizations are involved in Internet crimes.

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Good and Bad File Security From Microsoft

Microsoft seems to have a policy where you can set high security on your computer and block files that came from another computer from running. To unblock you right click on the file and choose unblock and the file can run.

Great. But what about when you download and run a program from the Internet and it has a whole bunch of files required to run and you try to run the app and get cryptic error messages and have no idea what the problem is or which file to unblock even if you do know what the problem is...this is typical Microsoft. When you change settings in your OS it can cripple and even corrupt your OS at times if you change COM and DCOM settings the wrong way.

But even worse I cannot get my work done right now (and had to stop and gripe about it) because this lovely security mechanism has blocked me from uncompressing a zip file. So yeah I turned around and unblocked it - cool, right? Not cool. When I try to unzip it still doesn't work and I am guessing it is because all the files in the zip file came from another computer - and I cannot "unblock" them because they are in a zip file! If that is not the problem not sure what is.

So I like the concept but I don't like the implementation. It would be better to allow someone to see all the files that ran, have run and are running and click on something to see what program they are associated with, which user ran them, time, date, etc. Also it needs to be easy to globally turn on and off this blocking and include those intstructions with the instructions for unblocking a file.

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Googlebot.com surfing for PHP files?

We got a hit for a php file we don't host. Turns out the IP resolves to googlebot.com. However the bot does not identify itself as Google in the user agent so it looks suspcious. But..when I go to googlebot.com in a browser...it goes to google. What is up with that?

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Keyloggers in Keyboards

Looks like keyloggers can be implanted in keyboards. Is that why my toshiba laptop keeps croaking? It somehow wants to always type extra letters.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/080806-keyboard.html?nwwpkg=alphadoggs

For Starbucks and Tmobile - Hotspot Hacks

I don't think this is all that new. I typically am on a VPN at a hotpsot (though there have been times when I wondered if someone could still access my machine).

Anyway when will the day come that someone gets hacked at Starbucks and turns around and sues them. I don't know how that would work out. I don't know if there is anything Starbucks or Tmobile can do about this (just naming the big guys here) but they certainly should try.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/042507-infosec-evil-twin-wi-fi-access.html?nlhtsec=0423securityalert4&company=HP

DNS Server Hacks

I don't know how many times I suggested that potentially DNS was hacked to various companies where weird things were happening....and they blew me off like I was nuts. Like there's no way DNS can be hacked. Right.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/041307-dns-vulnerability.html?nlhtsec=0416securityalert1&company=Mu%20Security

The question is, what's the fastest way to pinpoint if your DNS server is hosed?

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Related PHP hacker IPs

The following are related hacker hits trying to access PHP pages. These IPs are related as the hits all came at the same time.

"inetnum: 59.88.0.0 - 59.99.255.255
netname: BSNLNET
descr: NIB (National Internet Backbone)
descr: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
descr: Sanchar Bhawan,20, Ashoka Road, New Delhi-110001
country: IN
" 299391 BLOCKED 9jdq30c0otrp Tue Apr 24 04:59:02 PDT 2007 59.94.208.172 /index.php Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) /index.php act=Reg&CODE=00 83 7 1 4/24/2007 4:59:03 AM 24 4 4/24/2007 4:59:03 AM
"inetnum: 59.88.0.0 - 59.99.255.255
netname: BSNLNET
descr: NIB (National Internet Backbone)
descr: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
descr: Sanchar Bhawan,20, Ashoka Road, New Delhi-110001
country: IN
" 299391 BLOCKED 9jdq30c0otrp Tue Apr 24 04:59:02 PDT 2007 59.94.208.172 /index.php Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) /index.php act=Reg&CODE=00 83 7 1 4/24/2007 4:59:03 AM 24 4 4/24/2007 4:59:03 AM
"Comcast Cable Communications, Inc. ATT-COMCAST (NET-71-192-0-0-1)
71.192.0.0 - 71.207.255.255
Comcast Cable Communications, IP Services WASHINGTON-16 (NET-71-197-128-0-1)
71.197.128.0 - 71.197.255.255
" 299389 BLOCKED 3bghs2pqv3ms4 Tue Apr 24 04:58:56 PDT 2007 71.200.172.74 /index.php /index.php act=Reg&CODE=00 83 7 1 4/24/2007 4:58:56 AM 24 4 4/24/2007 4:58:56 AM
299388 BLOCKED 1cabokzq2eon9 Tue Apr 24 04:58:55 PDT 2007 200.140.12.1 /register.php Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) /register.php action=signup&who=adult 83 7 1 4/24/2007 4:58:56 AM 24 4 4/24/2007 4:58:56 AM
299387 BLOCKED 5bntk8b5n6k1t Tue Apr 24 04:58:52 PDT 2007 58.142.79.54 /register.php Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) /register.php action=signup&who=adult 83 7 1 4/24/2007 4:58:52 AM 24 4 4/24/2007 4:58:52 AM
299386 BLOCKED b2idleeknprcn Tue Apr 24 04:58:51 PDT 2007 201.12.150.239 /profile.php Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) /profile.php mode=register 83 7 1 4/24/2007 4:58:51 AM 24 4 4/24/2007 4:58:51 AM
299385 BLOCKED 5k5ov71rsp1qd Tue Apr 24 04:58:47 PDT 2007 203.223.150.95 /profile.php Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) /profile.php mode=register 83 7 1 4/24/2007 4:58:48 AM 24 4 4/24/2007 4:58:48 AM

University of Minnesota bot

We just got a whole slew of hits much too fast for a normal user from this network and IP:

134.29.227.130

OrgName: Minnesota State University System OrgID: MSUSAddress: Wells Fargo PlaceAddress: 30 7th Street East, Suite 350City: St. PaulStateProv: MNPostalCode: 55101-7804Country: USNetRange: 134.29.0.0 - 134.29.255.255

This was in the user agent - not sure if related: knst2007

I can find no references to this on Google except that it's showing up on web stats reports - specifically for a lot of Univerisities.