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Subject: Re: POP exploits
From: Scanner <scanner @ webspan . net>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:51:58 -0400 (EDT)
To: Rob Sansom <sansom @ connectix . com>
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199607121541 . IAA03298 @ apu . connectix . com>

On Fri, 12 Jul 1996, Rob Sansom wrote:

> I occasionally get a burst of TCP packets to port 110 on our web server, 
> which does not run a pop 3 server or any such thing.  Here's a good 
> example:
> I know it's not an employee trying to collect their mail, since all of 
> these connection attempts have come from places like Malaysia, Washington 

Hmm Malaysia? any gov.my? or any other .my?  I know that there are alot of
machines hacked in .my and I know one such person who has attempted with
failure over and over and over again to attack my popper port which is
wrapped and i cant figure out what the hell he's doing after 20 attempts
of geting refused that comes from many malaysia sites. I'm gonna say that
most of the conencts I get from .my are hack attempts.

Just thought I'd pass that on.

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