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Re: 25,000 ton amphibious spam relay

  • From: Suresh Ramasubramanian
  • Date: Tue Dec 16 17:39:29 2003 
Swaar, Matthew L.  writes on 12/16/2003 3:52 PM:


E-mailing the DOD-CERT is also another way to try to get these things fixed.

(...I'm not 100% certain that getting this fixed was the point of this, but
I
figured I'd point that out on the off chance.)

I'm forwarding the header information of this spam to the appropriate folks.
Yup - and this was behind a Raptor firewall, which seems to have added to rather than subtracted from the general insecurity of an old exchange server, in this case.

> H: Received: from no.name.available by avnavfw.lpd17.navsea.navy.mil
> H: via smtpd (for [209.181.16.1]) with SMTP; 16 Dec 2003 05:53:08 UT
The no.name.available and via smtpd in the top header say it all - and so much for smtp proxies trying to munge every single piece of version information in sight including the smtp banner, to ensure "security by obscurity" :)

> H: Received: from avnavfw.AVONDALE (205.67.231.5 [205.67.231.5]) by
> H: swn-email.lpd17.navy.mil with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail
> H: Service Version 5.5.2653.13)
Not that just plain old exchange of such an antique vintage would have been anything but secure, nosirree ...

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