RE: Anyone Watching Actvity from this network? Attempting Dovecot Buffer Overflows?

2023-11-21 Thread Rick Cooper via dovecot
@dovecot.org Subject: Re: Anyone Watching Actvity from this network? Attempting Dovecot Buffer Overflows? Good day to all . Just adding to the conversation with how I had to deal with this years ago. Basically hacks to any server are an issue today but it is cat & mouse trying to track

RE: Anyone Watching Actvity from this network? Attempting Dovecot Buffer Overflows?

2023-11-16 Thread J. de Meijer via dovecot
> Any traffic that is not your client's, is unwanted. I have never ever had > some scanning company called me, saying 'here you have 100 us$ because we > used your data' or 'here are some tips to configure this better'. > If someone is scanning you, it is always in their advantage not yours, no >

Re: Anyone Watching Actvity from this network? Attempting Dovecot Buffer Overflows?

2023-11-16 Thread Brendan Kearney
On 11/16/23 10:56 AM, Paul Kudla wrote: Ok a few things about IP blocks If they are portable they can move from country to country ?? without any real notice. the ip that triggered all this says it is allocated from NL (Neatherlands) but physicaly exists in Hawii ?

Re: Anyone Watching Actvity from this network? Attempting Dovecot Buffer Overflows?

2023-11-16 Thread Paul Kudla
Ok a few things about IP blocks If they are portable they can move from country to country ?? without any real notice. the ip that triggered all this says it is allocated from NL (Neatherlands) but physicaly exists in Hawii ? No list will ever be 100% acurate I did find this link that

Re: Anyone Watching Actvity from this network? Attempting Dovecot Buffer Overflows?

2023-11-16 Thread Richard Siddall
Brendan Kearney wrote: i have some rather old IpToCountry.csv files from a now defunct site. it mapped IP allocations to country and included the RIR, date assigned, etc.  this data is a few years old as the site was taken down and there is probably a lot of new or updated info.  a GeoDB

RE: Anyone Watching Actvity from this network? Attempting Dovecot Buffer Overflows?

2023-11-16 Thread Marc
And what if someone is on vacation? You can also use dnsbl on your submission, that helps a lot. > > Are there publicly available lists of IP ranges by region? > > There's no reason for any IP outside of North America to be contacting > Postfix on Submission (587) or IMAP, since these are

Re: Anyone Watching Actvity from this network? Attempting Dovecot Buffer Overflows?

2023-11-16 Thread Brendan Kearney
On 11/16/23 9:05 AM, Nick Lockheart wrote: Are there publicly available lists of IP ranges by region? There's no reason for any IP outside of North America to be contacting Postfix on Submission (587) or IMAP, since these are employee only services. If not for mobile phones, we could really

Re: Anyone Watching Actvity from this network? Attempting Dovecot Buffer Overflows?

2023-11-16 Thread Nick Lockheart
Are there publicly available lists of IP ranges by region? There's no reason for any IP outside of North America to be contacting Postfix on Submission (587) or IMAP, since these are employee only services. If not for mobile phones, we could really close it off. On Thu, 2023-11-16 at 08:27

Re: Anyone Watching Actvity from this network? Attempting Dovecot Buffer Overflows?

2023-11-16 Thread Paul Kudla
Good day to all . Just adding to the conversation with how I had to deal with this years ago. Basically hacks to any server are an issue today but it is cat & mouse trying to track all of this. That being said using the reported ip address below, I patched postfix to log the ip address

RE: Anyone Watching Actvity from this network? Attempting Dovecot Buffer Overflows?

2023-11-16 Thread Marc
Any traffic that is not your client's, is unwanted. I have never ever had some scanning company called me, saying 'here you have 100 us$ because we used your data' or 'here are some tips to configure this better'. If someone is scanning you, it is always in their advantage not yours, no santa

Re: Anyone Watching Actvity from this network? Attempting Dovecot Buffer Overflows?

2023-11-15 Thread Joseph Tam
On Wed, 15 Nov 2023, 23:25 Michael Peddemors, wrote: > Not sure yet if it is Dovecot, or the SSL libraries they are > attempting > to break, but using a variety of SSL/TLS methods and connections... > > They are not interested in dovecot per se. They scan for TLS vulnerabilities,

Re: Anyone Watching Actvity from this network? Attempting Dovecot Buffer Overflows?

2023-11-15 Thread Simon B
On Wed, 15 Nov 2023, 23:25 Michael Peddemors, wrote: There is a network claiming to be a security company, however the activity appears to be a little more malicious, and appears to be attempting buffer overflows against POP-SSL services.. (and other attacks).