Re: Testing the user community

From: Lee Lawson (leejlawson@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 02 2007 - 04:43:20 EST


Have you just admitted to committing a crime? I don't see how you
could have obtained prior written permission from all of Dr X's
contacts before you started the 'test'.

I don't think anyone on the mailing list would condone that sort of
action. Please stay legal or you will ruin it for the rest of us!

On 2/2/07, Nicolás F. Iglesias <nfiglesias@gmail.com> wrote:
> Once, i did a personalized phisymail from a personal PC, catched through
> Netbios. The intrusion was as follow:
>
> - I found a Winbox on internet, from Dr. X (i don't remember his real name).
> He has the netbios opened, so it was easy to broke his lan.
> - I learned, from DOCs, LOGs, websites visited and all data i found on his
> HD, who was and what kind of person he was.
> - I wrote an email, using a language according to his "personality"
> (university phd and so on...) and i "invited" his contacts to test a
> financial software (he and his contacts, all working on economy and
> finances).
> - The fake soft has a keylogger on it. The logs was sent to my free
> emailaddress.
> - In a few days, i was able to see all data from his friends and very
> interesting people (one working at my country's defense agency as an IT
> consultant), bank accounts, credit cards,etc. But it just was a nice
> experience and i didn't stole a penny.
>
> What i'm trying to expose is that, on phishing, you have to develop social
> engineering.
>
> NiCo
>
>
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