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Anyway, I recommend you to WARN the owners of this servers _you server NO DOUBT T IS BROKEN and abused by the hacker_. I see al (ALL) domains the scanning was originated from are in the list of the domains where sniffers is known was installed and passworeds collected by the hackers. Unfortunately, this is (mainly) big educational networks where sysadmins are clueless about security and abusing. I have got answers on my WARN messages at (approx) 50% cases, mainly from small commecrial companies, sometimes from ISP, and rarely from the universities. I can provide you a few examples of such networks. In message <[email protected]> Daniel Senie writes: >The frequency of IMAP attacks is increasing, and the number of IP >addresses scanned per attack seems to be increasing as well. In the last >24 hours, I've been scanned by: > fermi.math.csi.cuny.edu > c149.lib.uci.edu > sockeye.cob.calpoly.edu > quebec.upa.qc.ca >Anyone upstream of any of these able to add a Sniffer? It'd be >interesting to see if someone is connected in via telnet or ssh and >launching the attacks remotely. With all of these types of attack in the >last several days, the systems doing the attacking have all been ones >that were compromised. >-- >----------------------------------------------------------------- >Daniel Senie [email protected] >Amaranth Networks Inc. http://www.amaranthnetworks.com -- Aleksei Roudnev, Network Operations Center, Relcom, Moscow (+7 095) 194-19-95 (Network Operations Center Hot Line),(+7 095) 239-10-10, N 13729 (pager) (+7 095) 196-72-12 (Support), (+7 095) 194-33-28 (Fax)
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