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Re: Addresses for latest spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chuck goolsbee)
Tue Jun 8 16:55:02 2004
In-Reply-To: <200406081852.i58Iq5Op024005@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:54:19 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: chuck goolsbee <chucklist@forest.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:24:49 PDT, Gregory Hicks said:
>> Isn't this called a "dictionary" attack?
>
>Well... if you want to get technical, it's a subclass of dictionary attack -
>the only question being how the dictionary is created.
The specific term you are looking for, I believe is "Directory Harvest Attack."
We've seen quite a few directed at our mailservers.
Some highly sophisticated, some not.
--chuck
