David, Are these messages in plain text or HTML format?
Could they be imbedding objects in the HTML to do reconnaissance of the system/network? Aaron On 7/20/12 7:29 PM, David Kovar wrote: > Good evening, > > A mid-sized high tech client got a new CEO a few months ago. Since coming on > board, he's received a steady stream of probe email addresses from a wide > variety of throw away email address. The addresses are most often Gmail > accounts with random letters for the name and for the address. The subject > line and message body are often blank, but they occasionally contain "Hello". > There is no malicious payload. No other messages arrive from the same address > to any employee and the sender's address doesn't show up via any searches > I've conducted. > > Any speculation on the purpose of these messages? > Any ideas on how to trace them back to someone? > Any ideas on how to stop them? > Anyone else seeing this? > > -David > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > -- "In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." -Mark Twain _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
