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[cobalt-users] Server attacked
- Subject: [cobalt-users] Server attacked
- From: "Phil Beynon" <Infolink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Apr 5 11:02:09 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Hi all,
Well yesterday was interesting!
I had a version of FormMail 1.6 still running on the server and some script
kiddie decided to exploit it to send some porno advertising emails to AOL
users. Problem was we got prior warning as the script he used to locate it
actually sent us an email saying it had located the version and something
was going to happen!
So my ISP and I just sat back and waited, needless to say a couple of hours
later he started his run - we soon nailed him back to his ISP who hopefully
by now have kicked him off his account.
The version of FormMail has been updated to 1.9 now!
Phil
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