This past weekend one of our SGIs was attacked by email spammers. The
version of sendmail installed on SGIs can be used to relay mail
messages. There is a patch, #3937, for the latest versions of IRIX,
6.5.7 and 6.5.8, which installs sendmail 8.9.3 which is by default
closed to this type of attack. Many machines at Brandeis were attacked.
See
http://maps.vix.com/tsi/ for information on securing mail servers
against abuse by spammers.
Sara
Sara Kunz
Chemistry Dept. MS 015
Brandeis University
PO Box 549110
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
Phone: 781-736-2840 Fax: 781-736-2516
Received on Tue Aug 01 2000 - 11:27:44 MST