Re: [Full-disclosure] Skype account + IM history hijack vulnerability

["Nick FitzGerald" <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Benji wrote:

> Oracle attacks?
> 
> See into the future?
> Padding oracle attacks?
> Oracle SQL injections?

You noobs...

   http://www.drdobbs.com/understanding-oracle-attacks-on-informat/184405917

(Don't get too tied up in the crypto stuff in that article.)

klondike's point is that simply monitoring the response of the "user X 
wants to change their password" web-form tells you whether there is, in 
fact, a user named "X" on the system.  That's kinda obvious from the 
bash script klondike provided, and I don't do bash...



Regards,

Nick FitzGerald


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