[PLUG] Dictionary attacks

AthlonRob AthlonRob at axpr.net
Wed Feb 18 18:59:01 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 18:54, Terry Griffin wrote:
> I'm just guessing from the activity in my mail logs over the past couple
> of days that all those MyDoom-infected machines are now being used for
> dictionary attacks. No doubt the spam will follow.

What service are they attacking?  SMTP w/ Auth?  POP3?  IMAP?

If the latter two, kill off the non-SSL ports completely... tunnel them
with stunnel... be happy knowing your mail is more secure.  :-)

Rob





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