Re: [SLUG] Oh goodie - again....(sober.q strikes again)

[Rick Welykochy <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Gray wrote:

> http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/163106139
>
> Hold onto your mail servers folks - looks like Monday could be ground-hog day 
> all over again.  Last week (as you know) was neo-nazi-right-wing-hate-spam, 
> this week....who knows?
>
> Time to batten down the hatches.  I'm hoping some machines go off "early" and 
> I can catch some samples in the wild to modify the spamassassin filters.  
> Will let people know if I (or other admins I know) manage to achieve this.

Pity the poor buggers who receive the bounces for non existent addrs, when
the From: is faked. I'm already seeing a few. Last year, a fellow on the LINK
mailing list rec'd over 30,000 bounces in a week :(

Does anyone on Slug have a clue how to prevent such from happening, aside
from nuking the "big 200" known spammers in Florida and surrounds?

cheers
rickw



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