North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: New mail blocks result of Ralsky's latest attacks?
Cant speak for others, but the server that was blocked for us by Yahoo! is ACL'd by IP address. It would be very helpful if the Yahoo! folk could post an official explanation as to what happened so we can pass it on to our customers. e.g. a URL somewhere on Yahoo! ? ---Mike At 10:59 AM 10/10/2003, Bob German wrote: A colleague informed me this morning that Alan Ralsky is doing widespread bruteforce attacks on SMTP AUTH, and they are succeeding, mainly because it's quick, painless (for him), and servers and IDS signatures don't generally offer protection against them.
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