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Re: POP3 logon attempts

From: Steve Cody (stevecodycrew.net)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 16:44:06 CDT


I had the same thing happen to my pop3 servers. It may have even been
the same tool. The following accounts were tried:

administrator
admin
backup
root
server
test
webmaster
web
www

This is only the second time I've noticed this in my logs. There were
161 attempted logins this time and all came from 61.144.128.177. This
is an address in China.

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 07:11, 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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