Re: spam from spoofed address

["Dennis Meharchand, CEO Valt.x" <dennis () VALTX COM>]

As a computer security company - manufacturer of Cyber Secure Hard Disk
Drives/Adapters - hackers use our Email addresses often in spoofed
emails containing virus attachments. It is extremely frustrating as it
may result in our legitimate emails being blocked. It appears that we in
turn have frustrated the hackers as they refer to our products as "the
little bastid" that no one can hack. It would appear that the only
solution to the spoofing problem would be if Email Servers were able to
verify that the received from domain name matches the IP address and
discard all else.

Dennis Meharchand
CEO, Valt.X Technologies Inc.
Email: dennis () valtx com
tel: 416-746-6669, 1-800-361-0067
fax: 416-746-2774
web: www.valtx.com


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Discussion Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Russell
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:21 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] spam from spoofed address

On 8/11/2004 7:30 AM, Craig Blaha wrote:

> I've received three separate spam messages (christian dating, designer
> bags and education provider) with a from address that matches our
> college ("christian dating"@tcnj.edu). Anyone else seeing this?

We have not seen that specific pattern, but we have had a few recent
reports of
spam with an RFC822 'From' address of "envelope-sender-address"@nd.edu,
where
envelope-sender-address was the envelope sender address.

--
Paul Russell
Senior Systems Administrator
OIT Messaging Services Team
University of Notre Dame

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