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- From: dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Fake headers on Internet mail
- Message-ID: <bsxpj1.4n4@wang.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 18:18:35 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.151404.1424@lub001.lamar.edu>
- Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
- Lines: 42
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- This was in comp.security.something..... anyone care to help this guy out?
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- sherer@lub001.lamar.edu writes:
-
- >This is the first time I've posted to News, so please be kind.
-
- >I have been informed of a suspected problem in Internet mail by one of my
- >operators. He received some mail from some valid users at our site, and he
- >responded to those messages. The people that supposedly sent the messages
- >claimed they never sent them. Then he (the operator) received e-mail from
- >himself on a VMS node to his account on our ULTRIX node. He did not send the
- >mail himself, and he checked the last login time on the account on the VMS node
- >and found that no one had logged in on that account in quite a while, so he did
- >not believe anyone figured out his password.
-
- >My question is, is there a way to masquerade as someone else in e-mail? If so,
- >is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening? It seems like they
- >are changing the header to look exactly like a real mail message from someone
- >else, and it is very dangerous if someone figures out how to do this. I was
- >wondering if anyone out there had heard of such a thing.
-
- >Please send mail to me personally at the following addresses. I would greatly
- >appreciate any light you can shed on this.
-
- >Thanks.
-
- >Kirk Sherer
- >Lamar University
- >Beaumont, TX
-
- >Internet address: SHERER@LUB001.LAMAR.EDU
- >Phone: (409) 880-2374
-
- Why do I have the feeling that this guy is going to get mail from
- a whole lot of famous people..... maybe even from himself?
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