Re: New mail blocks result of Ralsky's latest attacks?

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () outblaze com>]

Brian Bruns writes on 10/10/2003 8:42 PM:

> Tis one of the reasons why I've disabled SMTP AUTH on all of my servers 
> for now.  I've known about this for a few weeks now.  Its not 
> surprising.  Most of the servers cracked are Exchange servers (probably 
> thanks to weak passwords), but I still don't feel like taking a chance.

Exchange (and MDaemon) seem to be targeted extensively - they have 
admin:admin and guest:guest type default accounts that, if they aren't 
locked down, can be used to AUTH and send out mail.

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