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Re: POP3 logon attempts


From: Torsten Mueller <torsten () archesoft de>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 00:16:52 +0200



Tom Fischer schrieb:

Hi,
some of our POP3 servers got DoSed cause of massive password probes
against following accounts:

...

Does someone know a tool which will brute force these accounts?


No, but i think we will see growing attempts because of the recently
discovered and closed bug in qpopper.

Torsten

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