Re: Compromised Accounts

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Vernon A. Fort wrote:

> amount of spam email.  It appears the exploiter obtained the password 
> and then compromised the account.  The actual email user is completely 
> unaware of the compromise - meaning they did NOT send this spam email.
<SNIP>
> When looking at the mail queue file, you can see the squirrelmail 
> authenticated user name and the queue file clearly show it came from the 
> localhost indicating the squirrelmail interface.

If you are indicating the Received: header, it can and has been faked by
spammers in the past.  Are you certain this is not the case?  What do
your SMTP logs show?  Did the messages in question truly pass through
your mail system?

> We did not have the webmail with a CERT (ssl) but do NOW!  Is there any 
> know way of easily compromising a email account directly with PHP and or 
> squirelmail.

Well if they have the password as you indicated above, there isn't a
whole lot to "compromising" the account, is there?

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Chris Hilts
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