Firewalls: Someone knocking at our door...

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Subject:	Someone knocking at our door...
From:	peter @ nmti . com (Peter da Silva)
Date:	Sat, 29 Jul 1995 21:28:28 -0500 (CDT)
To:	firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to:	<Pine . SUN . 3 . 91 . 950729122413 . 5942E-100000 @ netcom14> from "Michael Nelson" at Jul 29, 95 12:25:46 pm

Well well well. Just got the first detected phreaker attempt on my firewall.
Someone poking around in SMTP and trying to log in as sync.

Poor fellow was easily discouraged.

Should I tell the attacking system they've probably been compromised?

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Re: Port 139 (netbios over TCP) ftp.microsoft.com
From: Michael Nelson <mikenel @ netcom . com>

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