North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: formmail.pl - What hack is this?
In message <[email protected]>, "John Palmer (NANOG Acct)" wr ites: > >Anyone hear of some sort of a cracking method that uses cgi-bin/formmail? >I've seen alot of these in my httpd/access_log files >lately. I don't have formmail.pl anywhere on my system - I flushed all of >the cgi-bin stuff that came with apache a long time ago. > Spammers are actively looking for such scripts to abuse to send junk mail. See, for example, http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2001/Mar/1001108.html --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb Full text of "Firewalls" book now at http://www.wilyhacker.com
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