Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:26:55AM -0500, Parag Warudkar wrote:
On Thursday 17 February 2005 10:10 am, Paolo Ornati wrote:
您好:
我已_盏_您的繽信
and... what does this means?
SPAM. This looks to me like a new way of spamming though, replying to valid
mailing list messages. (I too received couple of these in reply to my
messages.)
The most interesting fact seems to be that these spam messages have the
same message ID as the original Mails.
If you run a program that automatically discards duplicate mails and the
spam message reaches you faster than the original email through
linux-kernel (which seems to often happen with these mails), the
original email will be discarded.
I don't know whether these are known attacks, but the automatic
discarding of duplicated emails offers attackers nice opportunities if
they know a message ID (as with these emails) or can guess the
message ID (since many MUAs have predictable message IDs, an attacker C
could use this to suppress a message from person A to person B by
sending an email with the message ID to person B bevor person B gets
the email from person A).
Parag
cu
Adrian
The spamers become always cleverer :-) .
Matthias-Christian Ott
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