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TESO was a
In 1998, Teso was founded, and quickly grew to 6 people, which first met in 1999 at the CCC Camp near Berlin.
By 2000, the group was at its peak, and started speaking on various conferences, wrote articles for
in OpenBSD followed by a series of remote exploits against OpenBSD (some co-authored with ADM). Forced OpenBSD to remove the claim from the OpenBSD webpage "7 years without vulnerability". In September 2001 released comprehensiv
Format String Research Paper
by scut describing uncontrolled format string vulnerabilities. In 2003, the group informally disbanded, and in 2004 the website went down.
hellkit
the first shellcode generator. * In 2000, wrote TesoGCC, the first format string vulnerability scanner, and the first comprehensive guide on format string exploitation. * ''BurnEye'' team member is widely believed to be one of the first proper ELF executable crypters.
Dave Aitel on TESO
Packetstorm TESO Archive
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hacker group
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Overview
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, which originated in Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
. It was active from 1998 to 2004, and during its peak around 2000, it was responsible for a significant share of the exploits on the bugtraq mailing list.
History
In 1998, Teso was founded, and quickly grew to 6 people, which first met in 1999 at the CCC Camp near Berlin.
By 2000, the group was at its peak, and started speaking on various conferences, wrote articles for Phrack
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and released security tools and exploits at a very high pace. Some of its exploits only became known after leaking to the community. This included exploits for wu-ftp
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It was originally written by Chris Myers and Bryan D. O'Connor in Washington Univers ...
, apache, and openssh
OpenSSH (also known as OpenBSD Secure Shell) is a suite of secure networking utilities based on the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, which provides a secure channel over an unsecured network in a client–server architecture.
Network Working G ...
.
2000 First remote vulnerabilitin OpenBSD followed by a series of remote exploits against OpenBSD (some co-authored with ADM). Forced OpenBSD to remove the claim from the OpenBSD webpage "7 years without vulnerability". In September 2001 released comprehensiv
Format String Research Paper
by scut describing uncontrolled format string vulnerabilities. In 2003, the group informally disbanded, and in 2004 the website went down.
Achievements
* In 2000, developehellkit
the first shellcode generator. * In 2000, wrote TesoGCC, the first format string vulnerability scanner, and the first comprehensive guide on format string exploitation. * ''BurnEye'' team member is widely believed to be one of the first proper ELF executable crypters.
Quotes
Members and name
The name originally was anacronym
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of the nickname
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s of the original founders (typo, edi, stanly, ), but as many of the most skilled members joined later, this interpretation quickly became meaningless. Teso originally and during its peak was a small and tightly knit group. A full list of members does not appear to exist, but if public sources can be trusted, at least the following members existed:
*Abdullah Khann
* caddisSource: http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/bsdchpass-exp.c
* ediSource: http://www.trust-us.ch/phrack/phrack/62/p62-0x04_Prophile_on_scut.txt
* halvarSource: http://www.ccc.de/congress/2001/fahrplan/event/255.de.html
* hendySource: http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99385173302656&w=2
* lorian
*
* palmersSource: http://freeworld.thc.org/root/docs/loadable_kernel_modules/p58-0x06.txt
* randomizerSource: http://mixter.void.ru/about.html
* scut, published in September 2001http://julianor.tripod.com/bc/formatstring-1.2.pdf>Exploiting format strings vulnerabilies Exploiting format strings vulnerabilies paper
* smiler
* skyper
* stealth/S.Krahmer
* stanly
* typo aka Paul Bohm
* xdr/mdr
* zip
See also
*Goatse Security
Goatse Security (GoatSec) was a loose-knit, nine-person grey hat hacker group that specialized in uncovering security flaws. It was a division of the anti-blogging Internet trolling organization known as the Gay Nigger Association of America ...
* w00w00 - A rivaling hacking group. Some research and releases were published together with w00w00 members.
* The Hacker's Choice
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- Some team-teso members joined THC after TESO was disbanded.
References
External links
Dave Aitel on TESO
Packetstorm TESO Archive
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