Re: POP3 logon attempts

From: Mike (myname17at_private)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 19:40:07 PST

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I got hit with a similar (maybe the same, I'm not at work) list about a month 
ago.  Based on the IP, they came from China.

Mike

On Monday 31 March 2003 07:11 am, Tom Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
> some of our POP3 servers got DoSed cause of massive password probes
> against following accounts:
>
> admin
> backup
> data
> master
> oracle
> root
> server
> sybase
> test
> user
> web
> webmaster
>
> Does someone know a tool which will brute force these accounts?

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