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Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack
From: dave () kachina jetcafe org (Dave Hayes)
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 13:20:17 -0700
Seguridad <cdcsegu2 () cdcnet uniandes edu co> writes about POP3 attacks:
I think the solution isnt disable this port, the solution is just limit the number of tries to enter the valid user/password (3 times max)..
My solution was to decouple the POP passwords from the account passwords by having a separate POP password file. However, isn't there a safer way of sending passwords over the network? What's up with CHAP? ------ Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave () jetcafe org Freedom Knight of Usenet - http://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet What we see depends on mainly what we look for.
Current thread:
- Re: brute force, (continued)
- 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)