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[cobalt-users] RaQ3 MTA question
- Subject: [cobalt-users] RaQ3 MTA question
- From: Albert Croft <acroft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon Dec 25 08:28:06 2000
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Anyone have a good way on a RaQ3 (Sendmail 8.9.3) of defeating
"Rumplestiltskin"[1] attacks, or know if a newer version of Sendmail
will be released in upcoming .pkg s?
-Albert Croft
[1] "Rumplestiltskin" attacks - automated attempts to guess usernames
present on a system, normally seen by the administrator as a large
sequence of "User unknown" messages in the log files. (For more detail
on the attack, see "Stopping Span and Trojan Horses with BSD,
http://www.brettglass.com/spam/paper.html#Rumplestiltskin )