[2263] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Email Hack: Help.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cypherpunk Preacher)
Tue Jun 25 23:42:50 1996
From: "Cypherpunk Preacher" <isbe@ix9.ix.netcom.com>
To: WWW-SECURITY@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 20:59:00 +0000
Reply-to: isbe@ix.netcom.com
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Doug Breault wrote:
=>
=>Hello Everyone,
=>
=>We've got a problem here with a hacker. There's some punk
=>apparently hacking a mail server somewhere and sending BS postings all over
=>the net regarding get rich quick schemes, etc - from a non-existent
=>account on our server. They've done it twice so far, from two different
=>non-existent accounts.
Are they actually coming from your server or does someone just have
a fake reply address (with your servers name) ?
The examination of an actual posting may be required to determine the
solution.
Perhaps a search of Deja News for any peculiar idiosyncracies could
find a clue to the vandal's identity.
seeya
Cypherpunk Preacher
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