New mail blocks result of Ralsky's latest attacks?
Suresh Ramasubramanian
suresh at outblaze.com
Fri Oct 10 15:27:06 UTC 2003
Brian Bruns writes on 10/10/2003 8:42 PM:
> Tis one of the reasons why I've disabled SMTP AUTH on all of my servers
> for now. I've known about this for a few weeks now. Its not
> surprising. Most of the servers cracked are Exchange servers (probably
> thanks to weak passwords), but I still don't feel like taking a chance.
Exchange (and MDaemon) seem to be targeted extensively - they have
admin:admin and guest:guest type default accounts that, if they aren't
locked down, can be used to AUTH and send out mail.
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