Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
Charles Marcus wrote:
Dictionary attacks are a fact of life these days.
Just install some kind of blocking on your firewall (fail2ban is a good
one), and let it take care of the worst of it..
I wonder what they want by cracking a POP3 server. Read the user's
mails? It's true POP3 passwords are almost always equal to SMTP ones
(which is useful for spamming), but then why not try to crack the SMTP
server directly?
There may not be anything interesting in the user's inbox initially, but
there might be after the attacker starts sending password reminders from
eBay, Paypal, etc.
