RE: Evading NIDS article posted on SecurityFocus

From: xxradar (xxradar@radarhack.com)
Date: Sat Dec 03 2005 - 13:11:11 EST


Using simple fragmentation and certainly fragmentation combined with tcp
segmentation have been extremely useful and effective to evade
IPS/IDS/sniffing systems that can decode SSL encrypted streams (typically by
importing SSL private key). Most systems had some sort of shortcoming.

-----Original Message-----
From: Erin Carroll [mailto:amoeba@amoebazone.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 5:41 PM
To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
Subject: Evading NIDS article posted on SecurityFocus

The following Infocus:Pen-Test article was published on SecurityFocus
yesterday and applies to all platforms:

Evading NIDS, revisited
Sumit Siddharth
2005-12-02

This article looks at some of the most popular IDS evasion attack
techniques, based on fragmentation or the TTL field. Snort's configuration
and response to these attacks will also be discussed.

http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1852

Have any of you used some of these techniques and if so how successfu were
they?

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