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Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack
From: roessler () sobolev rhein de (Thomas Roessler)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 14:09:01 +0200
In bugraq, Brett L. Hawn writes:
Last night nol.net was the recipient of a new brute force password attack and I thought I'd share with you the attack and my reccomended solution.
The Attack:
Using the pop3 mechanism to crack user passwords
Nice, indeed. :-> Another daemon which is just perfectly suited for this attack is pcnfsd - its main purpose is checking passwords. We had to hack it up before (having to) use it on one of our servers about a year ago. tlr
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- Digital Unix, daemons and the SIA authentication library. Paul C Leyland (Jun 10)
- Re: Strange changes - any ideas? Darren Reed (Jun 10)
- Vulnerability Database Christopher Klaus (Jun 10)
- Re: brute force Ze'ev Maor (Jun 04)
- Re: brute force simes () tcp co uk (Jun 04)
- Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack Bill Broadley (Jun 03)
- Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack Brian Tao (Jun 08)
- Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack Paul D. Robertson (Jun 09)
- Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack Stefan Hudson (Jun 03)
- Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack Seguridad (Jun 03)
- Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack Thomas Roessler (Jun 03)
- Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack Andrew Macpherson (Jun 04)
- Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack John Orthoefer (Jun 04)
- Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack Don Lewis (Jun 04)
- Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack Dave Hayes (Jun 04)
- Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack Albert Lunde (Jun 04)
- Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack der Mouse (Jun 05)
- Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack der Mouse (Jun 09)
- Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack Brian Tao (Jun 09)