Subject: Microsoft announces new ways to bypass security controls Date: Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 10:03:32PM -0400 Quoting Sean Donelan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Of course, Microsoft isn't the only one with mail protocol security > weaknesses. > > POP3 is probably responsible for more cleartext passwords being > transmitted over the Internet than any other network protocol.
That statement is nicely supported by my dnsiff logs from various networking conferences -- the top three have always been: POP webmail without SSL other http apps without SSL. Below this we see IMAP, IM, telnet (rare) and a storm of snmp from windows machines trying to manage HP printers. -- Måns Nilsson Systems Specialist +46 70 681 7204 KTHNOC MN1334-RIPE Send your questions to ``ASK ZIPPY'', Box 40474, San Francisco, CA 94140, USA
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