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Re: Email attack
From: Nickola Pepelishev <cmage () mtel net>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 20:33:56 +0200
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Monday 05 February 2001 19:33, you wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I assume this is specific to somewhere.com--we seem to attract this kind of thing. 2001-02-01 We were under email attack (a message a second) addressed to somebody () somewhere com (a non-existent address). The attack went on for several hours until I finally blocked the two sending machines at my router.
$ while [ true ]; do head -100 /dev/urandom | mail somebody () somewhere com; done; Even an user's account is enough to acomplish such a stupid attack. - -- Nickola Pepelishev System Administrator @ mtel.net e-mail: cmage () mtel net - -- Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of MTel-Net Ltd -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOn7yFDlzfM4P8SBlAQGN2AP/WQRqDmDXJOK++0URYLs1DZikscYePLwS nw0R4hcEK+wuUO+So3HsLGzXTv4A6mfBJjNPNwAqjGSXuRF2BHPKnxbIic/zRcYM C4PZ1gU1MoFDB2/dZNOIn9eUzs+FyDlnWOs/E4VqiMs3tNVL3uOBbjoPZPjTnxDq u/g0iVkEJiM= =ms36 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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