On Monday 18 June 2007 17:06:31 chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > As I sat in my office this morning perusing the interwebs, my server > started making a lot of noise. (It has very noisy hard drives.) I looked > in the logs and saw repeated requests to connect to my IMAP server using > guessed user names. All the authentications were failing, but it increased > the load on the poor box and delayed its responsiveness to me. > > It was fairly simple to manually add an IPtable rule to block this one IP > address, and the attack stopped. > > But I cannot think of a reason someone would want access to IMAP accounts. > What purpose would this serve? > > Chris I guess...to spam from your network :-) -- Manuel Arostegui Ramirez. Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues.
