Is there anyway to get info back from Google such as where the user is
clicking on the map?

I assume not. I have a lot of experience with Ajax but haven't done
anything with the GMap API. I'm working on a new Ajax implementation
that gets around the browser same-origin policy...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy

...and I think this will be awesome for GMaps. Let's pretend Google
decides to utilize my Ajax implementation in their API. This would
allow the user to communicate bidirectionally not just directly to your
site, but also directly to Google. And through the user, your site and
Google could also talk to each other.

So for example, say you had a map and were having an Easter Egg hunt.
The first step would be to hide the eggs. The user would click say 10
places on the map where he was hiding eggs. Each click would grab the
coordinates from Google, throw them back to your site, and then display
a pushpin on the users map saying "Egg #X hidden". All these
coordinates would saved on your server. Subsequent users would then
try to find the eggs by clicking around.

Obviously this is a totally lame application, but it does show the
communication I'm going for between your site, your users, and Google.
So my questions are:

1) Am I correct that this is not currently possible with the GMap API?
2) You guys are far more experienced, so if you follow my example, what
would be a better example?

Another thought is that you could also record not just clicks, but
presses on the zoom, scrolling, satellite, and any other actions. So
you could have a guided tour just like in Google Earth. I'll also toss
out that this could all be included in a favelet but I won't go into
detail since most folks don't know what that is ;-)

Just to be clear, Google would have to include this communication
method in their API, so I'm not saying I can tell you how to do this
right now. But if you come with a good enough example, I bet we can
get them to make it an option since I think it could be VERY powerful.

Thanks,
-Nuttzy

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 11:54 PM.

Your problem is the typical operation aborted problem. Your javascript
is inside an html tag. It just happens to be a <p> tag that isn't
closed:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wanderthru.com%2Fwalthamgmap%2F20Hartwell_xml_OA.html&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline

Error Line 168 column 6: end tag for "p" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was
specified.

Close it, and no more operation aborted...

http://www.geocodezip.com/20Hartwell_xml_OA.asp

-- Larry

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 11:02 PM.

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 10:05 PM.

Hi,

I'm really in need of another set of eyes to look at my map. I have
been struggling with putting together my google map for weeks now and I
finally got it working in Firefox, but in IE after my map fully loads I
then get the stupid "Operation Aborted" error. I have searched these
boards and other sites high and low and after trying many
reconfigurations, still I can't this sucker to load properly. A quick
side note, prior to starting this project a few weeks ago, I had
absolutely no idea how to even put a basic html page up, so I have to
say the fact that I have incorporated html, java & xml in this site is
a HUGE accomplishment for me.

Here's the link to my map:

http://www.wanderthru.com/walthamgmap/20Hartwell_xml_OA.html

I'm sure there is something I'm missing with the onload function or
something like that, but I just can't figure it out on my and would
GREATLY appreciate some guidance.

Thanks!
Jessica

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 9:38 PM.

> From owner-nanog@merit.edu Wed Aug 9 22:00:58 2006
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: SORBS Contact
> From: Allan Poindexter <apoindex@aoc.nrao.edu>
> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:59:36 -0600
>
>
> Matthew> so would you consider as it is my network, that I should
> Matthew> not be allowed to impose these 'draconian' methods and
> Matthew> perhaps I shouldn't be allowed to censor traffic to and
> Matthew> from my networks?
>
> If you want to run a network off in the corner by yourself this is
> fine. If you have agreed to participate in the Internet you have an
> obligation to deliver your traffic.

Obligation to _whom_? My only obligations are to those who _pay_ me for
access to my systems/resources. If the people who *do* pay me for use of
my systems/resources "don't want" that cr*p, then I do 'have an obligation'
to _not_ deliver that traffic.

And _how_ I implement that, to the satisfaction of =my= customers, is NONE
OF _YOUR_ BUSINSESS, since you are *not* one of my paying customers.
I don't have to tell _you_ what I do; I don't have to listen to any of your
'complaints'; and I sure-as-hell don't have to defend, _to_you_, what I do.

> At LISA a couple of years ago a Microsoftie got up at the SPAM
> symposium and told of an experiment they did where they asked their
> hotmail users to identify their mail messages as spam or not. He said
> the users got it wrong some small percentage amount of the time. I
> was stunned at the arrogance and presumption in that comment. You
> can't tell from looking at the contents, source, or destination if
> something is spam because none of these things can tell whether the
> message was requested or is wanted by the recipient. The recipient is
> the only person who can determine these things.

Do *you* _KNOW_ how hotmail came up with that determination that 'users
got it wrong some small percentage of the time'? If you *don't*, you are
exhibiting _at_least_ as much 'arrogance and presumption' as you accuse
them of.

I *KNOW*FOR*A*FACT*, that some people _do_, occasionally 'get it wrong'.
I, _personally_, have done it. Be it an 'off-by-one' error in selecting
and marking the message, to a long-delayed response to something _I_ sent,
and that came in _without_ reference to what I sent, errors *DO* happen.

Note: it can be _really_ easy to figure out if/when people mis-identify 'spam'.
You ask them to classify a bunch of old messages, presented one at a time.
You present the _same_ message *more*than*once*. If they mark it is 'good'
three times, and 'spam' once. Then they *did* 'get it wrong' -- it's not
certain _which_ way they 'got it wrong', but it *IS* absolutely certain that
they did 'get it wrong' "at least once".

I've seen some of the stuff AOL _users_ flag as 'spam' -- "content analysis"
*alone* virtually guarantees that they were flagged in error. Things like
college acceptance letters from Division I schools, bank overdraft notices,
NDRs for mail they themselves *sent*, 'delivery receipts' and/or 'read
receipts' that they had _requested_ on mail they sent out, etc., etc.

>
> There are simple solutions to this. They do work in spite of the
> moanings of the hand wringers. In the meantime my patience with email
> "lost" silently due to blacklists, etc. is growing thin.

If you want 'reliable' delivery, you _pay_ the recieving system (and the
intermediaries) for that service. Your lack of patience with something
other people _give_ you the free use of is, quite simply, an inexcusable
display of arrogance and presumption.

0 Comments Published by Search on at 8:41 PM.

Sounds like a job for Custom Map Type.

See http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/googlemaps/custommap.htm
and http://mapki.com/wiki/Add_Your_Own_Custom_Map

--
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0 Comments Published by Search on at 8:25 PM.

Is this a error? seems to be an IE only problem?
click on the i in the tool bar and then anywhere on the map
It pretty much slides to where it should be in FF but in IE
the map sometimes goes very far afield

http://www.microimages.com/ogc/maps/wetlandsusa.htm

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 8:05 PM.

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 7:47 PM.

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 4:54 PM.

Thanks!
-jrg
Barry Hunter wrote:
> Have a look at the documentation:
> http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html
> in particular have a look at the moveend event. (don't know how to hotlink
> to the Events listing)
>
> See how you setup events:
> http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/#Events_overview
>
>
> then you can have your moveend event simply use getBounds function to get
> the current view and then add the appropriate markers (possibly fetching
> them via AJAX)
>
> See example here:
> http://www.nearby.org.uk/google/
> of what I think you are looking for.
> (don't look too closely at the code as its still for v1, as not yet been
> convinced with the speed of v2)
>
>
> However if you haven't already I highly recommend you look at Mike's
> Tutorial:
> http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/googlemaps/index.htm
> and also
> http://www.mapki.com/wiki/Main_Page
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jrg" <jrg@dbengines.com>
> To: "Google Maps API" <Google-Maps-API@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 6:48 PM
> Subject: How to draw based on the lat/lon and zoom of whatever is displayed?
>
>
> >
> > The examples seem (mostly) to be orieneted to having a few items
> > (overlays, polylines,markers) to be added. What if I have such for
> > most any view? I don't want to create 100s of such things even if they
> > are not going to be displayed (do I?). So how do I get a
> > display/expose event of some kind that I can they use to add only what
> > is appropriate for the current view?
> >
> >
> > >

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 4:47 PM.

Perhaps this will help:
http://www.mapki.com/wiki/Read_This_First#Google_Maps_has_different_imagery

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 11:08 PM
Subject: Google Map Data

>
> I load the Google Maps API using the following HTML script element (key
> truncated):
>
> <script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=AB[...]ZQ"
> type="text/javascript"></script>
>
> Why is my map atlas data different from what Google uses on the Google
> Maps page? As far as I can see from the API documentation, my method
> of loading the map above is the most recent.
>
>
> >

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 3:43 PM.

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 3:22 PM.

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Kevin McAleavey wrote:

> "management team" ... "management" ... "support team" ... "exploit" ...
> "problem" ... "team" ... "widglet" ... "first outside contact" ...
> "significant." ... "personal" ... "funsec" ... "flare"

Dude, your QUOTE LOCK key is stuck...

/mz
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0 Comments Published by Search on at 3:06 PM.

Hi,

Nobody should open an untrusted .HLP file.

An HLP file is the most similar to an executable but not being one,
mainly due to its powerful scripting language.

One of the documented macros documented and supported by this format is
"RegisterRoutine". Using this macro we can reference any Export of any Dll.

Example:

[CONFIG]
RegisterRoutine("Kernel32.dll", "Beep", "UU")

so the function can be used as a Macro within the WinHelp project

{\uldb Do Beep}{\v !Beep(750, 5000)}

The user won´t see any warning previously the execution of this macro.

I wonder why Microsoft and a lot of vendors are still using this
old-and-dangerous format for providing documentation.

Greets,
Rubén.

Benjamin Tobias Franz wrote:
> Microsoft Help (WINHLP32.EXE) - Multiple Remote Code Execution and
> Denial Of
> Service Vulnerabilities
> ... discovered by Benjamin Tobias Franz
>
> Affected Vendor:
> Microsoft
>
> Affected Product:
> Microsoft Windows - Microsoft Help (WINHLP32.EXE)
>
> Description:
> Multiple remote code execution and denial of service vulnerabilities exists
> in Microsoft Help (WINHLP32.EXE) because of the way that it handles
> Microsoft Windows Help files (*.HLP).
> An attacker could exploit this by placing a specially crafted help file
> on a
> webpage, or by sending the file as an attachment in an e-mail. The exploit
> is triggered by viewing the specially crafted help file. No user
> interaction
> is required. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability
> could
> take complete control of the affected system.
>
> Workaround:
> Do not open any HLP file from untrusted sources with Microsoft Help.
>
> Proof-Of-Concept files (simple demonstration files only):
> http://hometown.aol.de/qwertzset/BTFs_MSHelp_WINHLP32.EXE_POCFiles.zip
>
> Date of discovery:
> 20. - 22. July 2006
>
> Tested software:
> Microsoft Help on Windows XP SP2
> (WINHLP32.EXE: 5.1.2600.2180 | MSVCRT.DLL: 7.0.2600.2180)
>
> Probably all versions of Microsoft Windows are affected by these bugs.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Benjamin Tobias Franz,
> Germany
>

0 Comments Published by Search on at 2:24 PM.

On 8/12/06, Richard M. Smith <rms@bsf-llc.com> wrote:
> The September 2006 issue of Consumer Reports magazine
> (http://www.consumerreports.org) rates a dozen desktop anti-virus software
> packages. Here are the results:
>
> 1. BitDefender Standard 87
> 2. ZoneAlarm AV 85
> 3. Kaspersky Personal AV 82
> 4. Norton AV 80
> 5. Norton AV for Mac 80
> 6. McAfee ViruScan 77
> 7. Trend Micro PC-cillin 75
> 8. Alwil Avast! 68
> 9. F-secure AV 66
> 10. Panda Titanium AV 64
> 11. CA/eTrust EZ AV 57
> 12. PC Tools AV 41

Finding the standouts. Our next round of tests helped us identify
superior antivirus software by measuring how well each of the products
identified new viruses even before their signatures had been
downloaded. The antivirus programs did this by using a technique known
as heuristics, in which they seek out behaviors rather than
signatures.

To pit the software against novel threats not identified on signature
lists, we created 5,500 new virus variants derived from six categories
of known viruses, the kind you'd most likely encounter in real life.

That done, we unleashed the new viruses in our labs to see how well
the products detected them while scanning. Then we infected our lab
computer with each of 185 of them to see whether the products could
better detect viruses that were actively executing, based on their
behavior.

Finally, to see how often the antivirus software raised false alarms
by identifying benign files as viral, we scanned more than 100,000
clean files.
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0 Comments Published by Search on at 2:11 PM.

At 12:47 PM 8/12/06, Unca Brian wrote:
>I love it when someone knows what I'm watching better than I.

Sorry for being "misinformed" but all I've read you "double-speaking" comes from ONE source, and it ain't REAL journalism. Been there, done that, "who what when where why." OPINION is for the EDITORIAL page, not "content." :)

>I wouldn't need to watch any news, I suppose, if I had your contacts.
>If they're not top-secret, perhaps you can point me to them?

Here, unlike Bob Novak, I have to protect my "sources." So rather than taking it as "truth" how's about you just remember what I said for a later time after Rummy writes a book. IF he can. (grin)

>Unca Brian?

Yeah, trying to be "familial and friendly" ... if I've made an error in trying to placate, be happy to ignnore from now on. "Unca" out of ME means "respect" ... but like our current regime, good will *can* be squandered over bullsquirt. viz "Lebanon." :(

>I wasn't, and who cares what you were - or what you say you are, it
>doesn't buy you any credibility. Logs of your current attitudes are
>much more relevant. Stating this, such as you did, is a lot like a
>racist who gets called out saying, "hey, I've had black friends!"

fair enough ... you're already sounding like one of them religious Zombies causing wars with those words ... but I'll try to press onwards nonetheless - after all, I live in upstate New York ... ya can't have enough fire power. Heh.

And GIVEN your words, must stand back with respect and insist that you're a "credit to your race despite NASCAR. Heh. THANKS for judging me, but then again from all I've heard you spout, only makes sense. Can you tell me what my horoscope will be next week? Forget which sign I am, but then you've already pigeonholed me from your words apparently. GLAD to see that you reflect all that's "GREAT" about America. :-\

>The reply to which is always, "did they know you're a racist?"

Guess I"m guilty then. After all, no TRIAL is necessary anymore. :)

>That's really the only comment you needed to make.

Well then ... I guess I need to take back the preceding. Though I'm STILL a bit irked over the dissing of Barry Goldwater and what the PARTY of this REPUBLIC was founded on before it was overtaken by Taliban of the domestic kind that make Osama seem sane. :(

No, wanted to see if there was a shimmer of reason ... already have all I need to know. Pronouce thee "malware" ... I *see* now why just neing a company in thed states, nobody's buying ... YOU guys are the reason. I see Pat Robertson went to Jesrusalem so HE could do the whole Alexander Haig "I'm in charge now" thing. NEXT! :)

No offense, but I see why America's in the toilet and a grasp of "foreign policy" is just not gonna happen. Sorry to say, too well to play further.
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0 Comments Published by Search on at 1:54 PM.

>On Saturday 12 August 2006 14:35, Valery Marchuk wrote:
>> >I bet you haven't the balls all to search on nsa.gov and fbi.gov :>
>>
>> It looks like I have :) See my next message "XSS at nsa.gov" or just visit
>> my blog
>> http://www.securitylab.ru/blog/tecklord/179.php
>
>http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-May/thread.html#34263
>

second XSS in http://www.securitylab.ru/blog/tecklord/179.php rather then has been published in

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 1:34 PM.

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ScatterChat Advisory 2006-01: Cryptanalytic Attack Vulnerability
Technical Report
CVE ID: CVE-2006-4021
August 11th, 2006
http://www.scatterchat.com/

SUMMARY

ScatterChat (http://www.scatterchat.com/) is an instant messaging project
that aims to provide encryption and anonymity support with Tor to
non-technical users such as human rights activists and political
dissidents.

Steven Murdoch, a security researcher with the University of Cambridge,
discovered a theoretical weakness in ScatterChat's cryptographic module.
He found that an eavesdropper might locate patterns in a private
communications channel if extraordinarily large amounts of messages were
exchanged in a single conversation.

Note that this does not allow an eavesdropper to decrypt messages, nor
determine a user's identity if anonymity is used.

The practical impact of this vulnerability is very low.

DETAILS

It was found that the birthday attack could be used against the
custom padding mechanism on the ECB-mode encryption of messages.

After 114KB of data is sent in a single conversation the probability
of a collision between two 16-byte blocks is 1% and will reach 50%
after 904KB, then 99% after 2.3MB (approximately). Note that
conversations are reset when one or both peers sign off from the
instant messaging service.

The above figures are calculated assuming that messages do not
contain any entropy, which is unrealistic for an instant messaging
environment. Assuming a rate of one bit of entropy per character,
the probability of a collision is 1% after 580KB is exchanged and
will reach 50% after 4,822KB, then 99% after 12,431KB (approximately).

Note that if each instant message was filled to its 500-byte capacity
(as enforced by the system), then 580KB would be transfered after
1,188 messages.

IMPACT

The end-user impact of this issue is very low.

It is important to note that this issue does NOT allow an eavesdropper
to decrypt any messages, nor does it allow them to discover the user's
identity if the anonymity feature is used.

In general, this type of cryptanalytic attack allows an eavesdropper to
determine patterns in an encrypted conversation, which in theory could
yield information about messages if enough patterns were found and
correlated. However, this issue only allows two 16-byte segments to be
matched with 1% probability when at least 1,188 instant messages are
exchanged in a single, uninterrupted session. In most cases, more than
1,188 instant messages would need to be sent.

The information leaked in the above situation would be negligible.

This issue also affects any application that is built upon ScatterChat's
encryption module.

Note that secure file transfers are not affected.

SOLUTION

The ScatterChat project takes both practical and theoretical
vulnerabilities very seriously. However, due to the low impact of this
vulnerability, and the high risk of introducing other subtle security
problems in updating the protocol, this issue will not be fixed in the
v1.0.x branch.

This issue will be rectified in the v2.0 series, which will replace
the current cryptographic module with the well-tested OTR encryption
module (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/). A release date for v2.0
is not yet known.

Optionally, this issue can be mitigated through the use of the anonymity
feature, as traffic analysis often requires a known context to make
sense of patterns. Without the knowledge of who is communicating,
an eavesdropper's attempts at interpreting patterns can be frustrated.

ScatterChat v1.0.x remains safe to use in the overwhelming majority of
cases. However, for high risk, non-technical users, i.e., users operating
behind national firewalls, we recommend extra caution.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

A special thanks goes out to Steven Murdoch for his professionalism in
dealing with this matter. His web page can be found at:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/

CONTACT

J. Salvatore Testa II
jtesta--at--hacktivismo--dot--com

http://www.scatterchat.com/jtesta_2006.asc
3428 E58E 715E C37D 2AA7 C55E 97D1 DE8C 4B26 2B62

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 1:18 PM.

Michael Nicks wrote:

> Do we all really believe this laptop ban will last? I sure don't.

I think there are two issues in this thread -- this must refer to the
air travel bans. I don't know, but I'll bet it not only persists, it
will get worse.

The other issue has to do with the trend to thoughtlessly carry valuable
data (which in many cases belongs to somebody who didn't get a say-so in
its care) in laptops which are not protected.

Somehow somebody is going to do something draconian to get that under
control.

Some other form of executive dick-waving is going to have to be
developed that does not put so much at risk.

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 12:55 PM.

On 8/12/06, ben bakelaar <benbakelaar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Oh hey that's a really good solution Mark, thanks!
>
> Roger, yea that's exactly what I do, for creating the markers. But I
> would say if you have a PHP script being called from an XMLHttpRequest
> object, that's mixing Javascript and PHP! :)
What I meant was, I don't try to mix them in one page. As far as the
main map page is concerned, there is no PHP. The PHP that does get
called returns XML data. There is no javascript in the PHP page.

I've seen people do stuff like:

marker.openInfoWindowHtml("<?php print 'blah blah'; ?> ");

that line is what I call mixing javascript and PHP. (I'm not saying
it's wrong, I'm just saying I try not to do that)

Roger

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 12:46 PM.

Hi,

I checked these files you said vulnerable and could not see any vulnerability.

Lets check lines 25-34 of index.php:

--source code of index.php lines 25 to 34-

25: //error_reporting('E_ALL');

26:

27: define('IN_MYBLOGGIE', true);

28:

29: session_start();

30: header("Cache-control: private");

31: //error_reporting (E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE);

32: set_magic_quotes_runtime(0); // changes for 2.1.3

33:

34: $mybloggie_root_path = './';

-- end of source --

And you said lines 190-192 of index.php is vulnerable.

--source code of index.php lines 190 to 192-

190: if (!isset($mode)) {

191: include($mybloggie_root_path.'blog.php');

192: }

-- end of source --

As we can see variable mybloggie_root_path already set by index.php

We have same results in admin.php and db.php, Please dont post every include() function as a RFI vuln.

Dont post such a messages for being famous.

Regards,

Mustafa Can Bjorn IPEKCI

0 Comments Published by Search on at 12:44 PM.

The September 2006 issue of Consumer Reports magazine
(http://www.consumerreports.org) rates a dozen desktop anti-virus software
packages. Here are the results:

1. BitDefender Standard 87
2. ZoneAlarm AV 85
3. Kaspersky Personal AV 82
4. Norton AV 80
5. Norton AV for Mac 80
6. McAfee ViruScan 77
7. Trend Micro PC-cillin 75
8. Alwil Avast! 68
9. F-secure AV 66
10. Panda Titanium AV 64
11. CA/eTrust EZ AV 57
12. PC Tools AV 41

Richard

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 12:32 PM.

Microsoft Help (WINHLP32.EXE) - Multiple Remote Code Execution and Denial Of
Service Vulnerabilities
... discovered by Benjamin Tobias Franz

Affected Vendor:
Microsoft

Affected Product:
Microsoft Windows - Microsoft Help (WINHLP32.EXE)

Description:
Multiple remote code execution and denial of service vulnerabilities exists
in Microsoft Help (WINHLP32.EXE) because of the way that it handles
Microsoft Windows Help files (*.HLP).
An attacker could exploit this by placing a specially crafted help file on a
webpage, or by sending the file as an attachment in an e-mail. The exploit
is triggered by viewing the specially crafted help file. No user interaction
is required. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could
take complete control of the affected system.

Workaround:
Do not open any HLP file from untrusted sources with Microsoft Help.

Proof-Of-Concept files (simple demonstration files only):
http://hometown.aol.de/qwertzset/BTFs_MSHelp_WINHLP32.EXE_POCFiles.zip

Date of discovery:
20. - 22. July 2006

Tested software:
Microsoft Help on Windows XP SP2
(WINHLP32.EXE: 5.1.2600.2180 | MSVCRT.DLL: 7.0.2600.2180)

Probably all versions of Microsoft Windows are affected by these bugs.

Regards,

Benjamin Tobias Franz,
Germany

0 Comments Published by Search on at 12:31 PM.

sorry that was a lazy post.

Take for example ...
http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/goeseast/hurricane2/geo/0608041740.kml

Now that renders and open perfectly in Google Earth. What I want to do
is overlay that on a google map. Since the image file is a rather large
tiff, I'm assuming it will not work because it'll need to be carved up
into 256X256 tiles.

Still I thought I mightr be wrong.

Mo

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 11:56 AM.

John,

Thanks for your reply.

I am using the Net::FTP Perl module. My script is able to login to the
FTP server I am using, and change directory. However when I initiate a
GET I receive a 425 error. My host has confirmed that since my account
is on a shared server they have relatively restrictive firewalls in
place which prevent, among other things, downloading files to the
server using FTP.

They have offered me an account on a virtual server, which would give
me control over the firewall settings. This would cost $30 per month.

Richard

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 11:04 AM.

Dear H Moore,

HDM> Heh. I actually have a plan for doing that :-)
Yipee :) As I saw the request made to the dns server I thought so.

HDM> * It may not be that useful, but it does seem like a fun hack. With any
HDM> luck, this can be accomplished using the built-in name resolution API in
HDM> windows/unix/etc.

In windows world, WINET.DLL is your friend, and yes it works :) You can get TXT records
and alike, we have done so :) *big grin*

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 10:59 AM.

The examples seem (mostly) to be orieneted to having a few items
(overlays, polylines,markers) to be added. What if I have such for
most any view? I don't want to create 100s of such things even if they
are not going to be displayed (do I?). So how do I get a
display/expose event of some kind that I can they use to add only what
is appropriate for the current view?

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 10:58 AM.

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Richard M. Smith wrote:

> Does anyone know why someone would pay $38 on the street for a disposable
> cellphone? To buy drugs perhaps? If folks are buying hundreds of phones at
> Walmart there must be some sort of market for them.

The main reason I can think of, is that it would cost somewhat more if I
bought it in a shop. Isn't that a good enough reason?

If Jim Capitalist can buy something for $38, and sell it for $45, then
when he's done that 1,000 times, he has $7,000, which would, of course, be
used to fund pornography, terrorism and over-eating.

If the entire case here is that they flouted Walmart's three-per-customer
rule (which is a Walmart rule, not a law), and there's no more evidence,
then someone should be making a grovelling apology to these guys.

> Richard
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Larry Seltzer
> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 9:56 AM
> To: funsec@linuxbox.org
> Subject: RE: [funsec] 3 Arrested on Terrorism Charges in Mich. for
> buyingprepaid cellphones
>
> >>http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=104&sid=879155
>
> Another story I read said when they were taken they had opened all the
> packages and had collected the phones. It didn't sound like a good
> resale strategy.
>
> I can't imagine the substance of what they could be charged with, but
> they certainly sound dirty.
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0 Comments Published by Search on at 10:48 AM.

Will this work wth kml files just overlay image tiles into Google
Earth?

Cheers,
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0 Comments Published by Search on at 10:36 AM.

Does anyone know why someone would pay $38 on the street for a disposable
cellphone? To buy drugs perhaps? If folks are buying hundreds of phones at
Walmart there must be some sort of market for them.

Richard

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Subject: RE: [funsec] 3 Arrested on Terrorism Charges in Mich. for
buyingprepaid cellphones

>>http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=104&sid=879155

Another story I read said when they were taken they had opened all the
packages and had collected the phones. It didn't sound like a good
resale strategy.

I can't imagine the substance of what they could be charged with, but
they certainly sound dirty.

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 10:35 AM.

On 8/12/06, Kevin McAleavey <kevinmca@nsclean.com> wrote:
> Dewd! Gotta switch off that Faux news ...

I love it when someone knows what I'm watching better than I.

> and what played out behind the scenes was NOT good. :(

I wouldn't need to watch any news, I suppose, if I had your contacts.
If they're not top-secret, perhaps you can point me to them?

>
> And just so's ya know, Unca Brian

Unca Brian?

> I was a Goldwater republican.

I wasn't, and who cares what you were - or what you say you are, it
doesn't buy you any credibility. Logs of your current attitudes are
much more relevant. Stating this, such as you did, is a lot like a
racist who gets called out saying, "hey, I've had black friends!"

The reply to which is always, "did they know you're a racist?"

> I don't care for these guys and the continuing profligacy and ineptitude at every turn.

That's really the only comment you needed to make.
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0 Comments Published by Search on at 10:01 AM.

3. map.zoomTo() is v1 syntax but you're not running in compatibility
mode. Try map.setZoom() instead.

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 9:50 AM.

hi martin. this script shows your internal IP address, which is
192.168.1.3. Attackers can use that to find how your internal network
looks like. In your case 192.168.1.0 is you home lan and 192.168.1.1
is probably your router.

cheers,
pdp

On 8/12/06, Martin Dipo Zimmermann <mdz@prohest.com> wrote:
> It appears that your scripts only result is 192.168.1.3 (tested on 5
> sites). Dont think its quite ready to fly yet. But very interesting idea.
>
> BR
>
> Martin
>
> pdp (architect) skrev:
> > http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/javascript-address-info
> > http://f-box.org/~dan/jstest.html
> >
> > The following technique was brought to me by DanBUK
> > (http://f-box.org/~dan/). Dan managed to find the internal IP address
> > of the visiting client by establishing a socket between local host and
> > the remote web server. Upon success the socket populates its structure
> > with all kinds of useful information among some of which are the
> > internal IP address and the hostname.
> >
> > http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/javascript-address-info/addressinfo.js
> >
> > This technique requires Java, however I think that It should be
> > possible to achieve similar result by invoking special ActionScript
> > methods from Flash.
> >
> > POC can be found on the url above.
> >
>
>

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 9:33 AM.

On 8/11/06, Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle@gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually, the british authorities were tipped off by a muslim
> community in london.
>
> If they had pissed off their muslim communities, they would never have
> gotten the tip,
>
> -JP

I've not read that as being the dominant source anywhere. Both the UK
and Pakistan (who picked up several of the same "ring") appear to have
gotten a great deal of information from the US' NSA. And the
information sharing between US agencies to make this happen has been
highly praised.

But, hey, maybe you have better sources than the stories I've read...
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0 Comments Published by Search on at 9:05 AM.

On 8/12/06, ben bakelaar <benbakelaar@gmail.com> wrote:
> in the post above, I use the Javascript function resultsChange() to not
> only load a new PHP div with the text output from the database, but
> also load an XML file with the displayed points, and then loop through
> and display those points.
>

I don't mix javascript and php. I have a php script that queries the
database and then outputs the results to make it look like XML. the
page that displays the map just uses javascript to read the XML data.

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 8:50 AM.

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Larry Seltzer wrote:

> >>http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=104&sid=879155
>
> Another story I read said when they were taken they had opened all the
> packages and had collected the phones. It didn't sound like a good
> resale strategy.

That depends on your strategy.

Suppose you were planning to sell them in a street market, for example.
They'd advertise that they are really cheap (which they would be) and
environmentally friendly, because without packaging. Pile them high and
sell them cheap - possibly out of a suitcase. Maybe even Del-boy
fly-trading, which is possibly illegal (fine $10), but not terrorism.

Or maybe they planned to export them to Canada, and the transportation
costs are less if you discard all the polystyrene packaging filler.

Or maybe they were planning to sell them on Ebay, and then the postage
costs to send them to the buyer would be less without the packaging.

> I can't imagine the substance of what they could be charged with, but
> they certainly sound dirty.

They could perhaps be charged with "Having a beard that makes them look
vaguely like a terrorist" (if at least one of them is bearded), or
"wearing hats with intent to look different and thereby not looking like
their identity picture" (if necessary, the police could "find" a hat in
their van, or allege that the carrying case for the laptop "could be used
as a hat"). They don't sound dirty to me, they sound like good, honest
entrepreneurs, capitalists in the finest British tradition.

If there's more to this than "some guys bought some cheap phones and
contravened the Walmart policy of three per customer", I haven't heard it
yet.

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0 Comments Published by Search on at 7:46 AM.

>>http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=104&sid=879155

Another story I read said when they were taken they had opened all the
packages and had collected the phones. It didn't sound like a good
resale strategy.

I can't imagine the substance of what they could be charged with, but
they certainly sound dirty.

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> The men, all from the Dallas area, were being held on charges of soliciting
> or providing material support for terrorism and obtaining information of a
> vulnerable target for the purposes of terrorism, police Sgt. Dale Stevenson
> said. They told investigators they planned to resell the phones to a
> wholesaler for profit, police said.

That sounds right to me.

> Stevenson declined to elaborate on how the case relates to terrorism.
> Telephone messages were left Friday with the Tuscola County prosecutor's
> office and the FBI, which assisted with the investigation.
>
> The men, ages 18, 22 and 23, were being held in Tuscola County Jail and
> scheduled to be arraigned Saturday.
>
> Stevenson said the men went to a 24-hour Wal-Mart store in Caro early Friday
> and bought the cell phones despite a sto