Is PN's mail server secure?
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Is PN's mail server secure?
08-08-2007 9:31 PM
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I strongly suspect that these have been acquired from my PN account. We don't use, and never have used, the @<username>.plus.com addresses as I have my own domain which, incidentally, is now hosted with a third party hosting company so normal mail no longer comes through PN's servers.
When there was a security issue a couple of months ago I changed passwords as advised but these spam mails have only appeared recently but if the usernames had been obtained when the security issue occurred then I would have expected to see them sooner.
Anyone else seeing this, or can shed any light?
Re: Is PN's mail server secure?
08-08-2007 10:47 PM
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Note: even if you did not actually use webmail, PN copied many users email accounts to it when it was set-up hence why many are now receiving lots of spam.
Given that they have your email addresses, it does not take much effort to extract the part after the @ and do a dictionary spam attack, which is what you are seeing.
Your email addresses will have been 'sold on' to many spam senders so it is unknown when they would have been used.
Re: Is PN's mail server secure?
08-08-2007 10:47 PM
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I would very much suspect that the email addresses came from the webmail incident a few months back especially if it's not an address you've used. If you'd used webmail then these addresses would have been in the webmail database that was taken. The spammers are probably now upping the volume of spam sent out. The best thing to do if you don't use the plus.com address is to just turn it off, you can do that by raising a ticket.
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Re: Is PN's mail server secure?
08-08-2007 11:21 PM
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I don't want my name and address shown. why is this done?
Please advise
Michael
Re: Is PN's mail server secure?
08-08-2007 11:26 PM
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Re: Is PN's mail server secure?
09-08-2007 7:37 PM
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Quote from: dave Hi,
I would very much suspect that the email addresses came from the webmail incident a few months back especially if it's not an address you've used. If you'd used webmail then these addresses would have been in the webmail database that was taken. The spammers are probably now upping the volume of spam sent out. The best thing to do if you don't use the plus.com address is to just turn it off, you can do that by raising a ticket.
I used to receive no spam at all, and suddenly earlier this year, the level has increased dramatically. I have never used webmail though. Does that mean that my spam is nothing to do with the PN security breach?
Re: Is PN's mail server secure?
10-08-2007 8:11 PM
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cp:blue Full quote of previous post removed. mod:end
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10-08-2007 11:36 PM
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Re: Is PN's mail server secure?
11-08-2007 6:59 AM
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Quote from: spraxyt Has anyone that emails you used your email address from webmail? It doesn't have to be you personally.
Not really sure what you mean? Anyone who has my email address could send it to the spammers?
Re: Is PN's mail server secure?
11-08-2007 7:43 AM
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11-08-2007 8:41 AM
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Quote from: 430 I'm probably being dense, but I don't and never have used webmail
What it actually said was
"Note: even if you did not actually use webmail, PN copied many users email accounts to it when it was set-up hence why many are now receiving lots of spam."
Re: Is PN's mail server secure?
11-08-2007 1:31 PM
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Quote from: 430
Quote from: spraxyt Has anyone that emails you used your email address from webmail? It doesn't have to be you personally.
Not really sure what you mean? Anyone who has my email address could send it to the spammers?
No, not exactly. The Webmail database that was compromised contained some entries for email addresses people had sent mail to/received mail from whilst using webmail.
If you had sent email to another PN user who collected it via Webmail, or another user emailed your address whilst using Webmail themselves then there is a possibility that the spammers got your address
Bob Pullen
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Re: Is PN's mail server secure?
12-08-2007 9:28 AM
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12-08-2007 9:22 PM
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12-08-2007 9:32 PM
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