Another attack to fight off
Kevin Miller
Kevin_Miller at ci.juneau.ak.us
Thu Feb 28 17:39:31 GMT 2008
Scott Silva wrote:
> I see a new reason to block OoO replies;
>
> It seems that spammers are using legitimate webmail accounts to
> bounce their garbage via OoO replies. Just fake the sender, and
> suddenly you have spam with legitimate DKIM sigs, valid SPF, and
> maybe even whitelists.
>
>
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/022608-out-of-office-messages-turn
ed.html
>
> Filthy spammers!
Dang those boys are clever. Imagine if they turned their creativity to
world peace and cheap, clean energy. Too bad there's no money in that.
So how are you blocking Oo0 replies? There a spamassassin ruleset for
that or what?
...Kevin
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