Re: 60 minutes Sunday!!

> 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.
> -----------------------------
>
> Since the code snippet in question didn't look like it was complete, it
> was probably not intentional.
>
> --
> Juba
> www.masterjuba.com
I copied this off of American Pain Foundation site.I guess they attach web
bugs to track people visiting their site.OE removed it when I copied and
pasted it.

Doug

It was not intentional by no means at all!!!!



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