[14514] in North American Network Operators' Group
new: SPAM with TCP-forgery
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Howes)
Mon Jan 5 15:09:18 1998
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 11:31:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Charles Howes <croot@ics.bc.ca>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199801020630.AAA16515@freeside.fc.net>
Just a couple of weeks ago, I was receiving multiple spams from a site
that was being attacked with forged tcp connections to their mail server.
This is the tcp sequence-number-guessing style of attack, and it was
working quite well for the attackers.
Is this new?
--
Charles Howes --
chowes
@
ics.bc.ca
