CSRF on SiteMap Generator Engine = Denial Of Service?

Just now when I was looking for a cool SiteMap generator, I found this XML-SiteMaps.com. It’s cool enough with it’s nice interface, and so I submitted my site URL (Not http://zoiz.web.id). And of course clicking on the Start button, and so the crawler start doing it’s jobs. A minute later, the XML SiteMap output was generated. And I submitted it to Google Webmasters Tools.

So where is the Denial Of Service part? Aha! Sorry to keep you read all the nonsenses above :P But did you notice something interesting in my story? If you don’t maybe I can share you mine. Crawling a site cost more process usage. So the point is, if you can find CSFR (Cross Site Request Forgery) on a SiteMap Generator Site and write an automated script requesting numerous crawl on a victim site will give the victim system a hard punch (drain it’s resources). The result is the same as Denial Of Service.

Original Idea By : Zoiz [at] HackingForte.org

Website Security Auditor

Well it’s true that I found a critical vulnerability on WPThemesFree.com. I intended to report this vulnerability though, but never wonder that Mr. David (the owner of WPThemesFree.com) contacted me first on 16 November 2007. Maybe my friend reported to him. I am not sure.

In one of the email he asked me to work for his site security, well actually I am quite happy about that, although I am not sure that I am qualified or not :P I’ll try my best though.

In the emails with him, I told him (Mr.David) what were the problems. Thankfully all bugs were fixed. And yesterday I emailed him again and report some bugs, and it’s fixed today. Cheers to him! Cool :D And I am now working on another threat.

Thanks

Zoiz
http://zoiz.web.id

Tips for Making a Good Password and Less Crackable

Hi there. Welcome with me again. It’s been a long time since I wrote my last article here. And I only wrote one single tutorial about registry. Now I’m going to give you tips for making a good password. Only ten. Next time I’ll write more. Enjoy.

  1. Make a password with 8 characters or more. The longer you make more harder to crack. But don’€™t forget it!
  2. And don’€™t write it in a sheet of paper. Maybe you want to use your own code, but you may forget the way you should read it?
  3. Make a password with combination of all alphanumeric characters (letters and numbers). With case-sensitive password is recommended. If allowed and you’€™re too extreme, use symbols. I know Zoiz is too extreme (using alt+xxx :D )
  4. Don’€™t use typical words you might find in your dictionary or a dictionary-attack word index file. The words like, “€œadministrator”€, “€œdefault”€, etc.
  5. Don’€™t use these lazy combinations: “€œzxcvbnm”, “€œzcxvbn”€, “€œasdfgf”€, “€œqwerty”, “€œabcde12345″³ etc.; you know what I mean. If you’€™re too extreme, use a password generator.
  6. Don’€™t use the same password for each of your accounts (gosh, I’€™m not to doing this either biggrin.gif hee-hee).
  7. Don’€™t tell anybody your passwords (tha’€™s obvious, you know, unless your parents highly insist it, because I’m not teaching people to disobey their parents)!
  8. Don’€™t use a person, a company, or a pet typical names for your password or recovery questions.
  9. If you think you don’€™t need recovery questions anyway, just input bullshits around.
  10. Well you may use a unsual words in English, but as I say in point 3, don’€™t just “€œpneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovulcanocaniosis”€.

GreetZ

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Posted on http://zoiz.web.id

Protecting Yourself from Being Hacked!!

This article is written as my Thuer (Ren) reguested. Hope this to be useful for you all.

1. Password
Ever saw this : “You must remember your Password. We can’t retrieve it for you because it’s Encrypted with MD5 (or SHA1, etc) ”

Don’t believe that dude. Given to the processing speed of computers nowadays, cracking a MD5 password is not that hard though (Ex : Rainbow Table). But there’s way to protecting yourself though. Read tips below :

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