Aaron,

Alas, there is no content at all, no text, no HTML, nothing ....

-David

On Jul 21, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Aaron Melton wrote:

> 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
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