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Re: Addresses for latest spam

  • From: chuck goolsbee
  • Date: Tue Jun 08 16:56:53 2004 


On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:24:49 PDT, Gregory Hicks said:



 Isn't this called a "dictionary" attack?



Well... if you want to get technical, it's a subclass of dictionary attack -
the only question being how the dictionary is created.



The specific term you are looking for, I believe is "Directory Harvest Attack."


We've seen quite a few directed at our mailservers.
Some highly sophisticated, some not.


--chuck