Re: 60 minutes Sunday!!

<Hawki63@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Juba" <juba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:drdugg$6jr$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> What's with the attachment to your post that says, "begin 666
>> PixelServer?" etc?
>> Is that a "tracking bug?"
>>
>
> I was about to ask the same ?? I got a message saying OE had
> removed said thing..

That's what tipped me off.

http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/webbugs

Web Bugs are images (Gifs, Jpegs, PNGs, etc.) that companies and
organizations put into web pages, e-mails and other HTML supporting
documents to track information about the viewer. These images are
sometime know by other names such as tracking bugs, pixel tags, web
beacons or clear gifs. What ever the name, their function is largely the
same.

Under normal circumstances an organization would just look at
their web logs to find the kind of information that a Web Bug might
provide them. However, if the content the web bugger wishes to track is
not hosted on their site, but instead its hosted from a third party's
server, then the web bugger can not obtain this information since they
would not have access to the web server logs. By putting an image from
one of their servers into an HTML E-mail or a third party's webpage the
Web Buggers can find the data they want about the contents viewer. Some
of the interesting information items that can be obtained about the
viewer are:

* IP Address
* Hostname
* Operating System
* Web browser type (IE, Mozilla, Opera, etc.)
* Date the image was viewed
* If cookies are used, other sites visted

Since the clients IP is logged further information that can be obtained
if the web bugger wishes to take further steps. Even going so far as to
port map and do an OS detection on the clients IP using Nmap.
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Since the code snippet in question didn't look like it was complete, it
was probably not intentional.

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Juba
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