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- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:55:24 -0500
- From: David L. Nicol <david@KASEY.UMKC.EDU>
- To: BUGTRAQ@netspace.org
- Subject: javascript hotmail password trap
-
- Hello, I was informed this morning that a free form data mailer
- I maintain (http://www.tipjar.com/generic.html) was being involved
- in a javascript-based hotmail password stealing scheme.
-
- I have located the originating page (with the script) and sent it
- to the contact address hotmail puts on their autoresponder documents.
-
- I will share an URL for the (fully escaped) exploit in a week or two,
- to give hotmail time to patch their systems. (that's correct procedure,
- right?)
-
- So far the perp has a few dozen passwords (and I've got them too,
- they appear in my apache server log)
-
- I have offered to send hotmail the list. As there are many free form
- data mailers around, I am not making any modifications to my tool (which
- is performing correctly) which would chase the password trapper to
- another form mailer whose admin does not keep as good of logs.
-
- The page with the script on it contains a warning that your password
- has just been trapped; so unless there are other copies of this script
- running around all the victims know it already.
-
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- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 02:18:08 -0500
- From: David L. Nicol <david@KASEY.UMKC.EDU>
- To: BUGTRAQ@netspace.org
- Subject: Re: javascript hotmail password trap
-
- ha ha.
-
- No, it wasn't a traditional password trap (like yours) but
- a javascript which takes advantage of cookie-based security
- hooks to contact hotmail's database and change your password.
-
-
-
-
- frisco wrote:
- >
- > Is that originating page anything like
- > http://www-personal.wccnet.org/~frisco/code/assorted/hotmail.html
- > ? It's a page i made a while back to describe some security issues to
- > some co-workers.
- >
- > just curious.
- >
- > -f
- > http://www.peruano.org/
- >
-
- ________________________________________________________________________
- David Nicol 816.235.1187 UMKC Network Operations david@news.umkc.edu
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