[WebDNA] Attack?
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texte = So=E2=80=A6 I have been getting attacked, I think. Last month it was a ton o=f emails that used my return address but didn't get post with my SMTP server=, and my console logs showed constant attempts to get through ports (OS X se=rver, no one got in). The constant activity would crash WebCat.That went away, but now I have been getting a ton (hundreds sent in a few mi=nutes of each other, several times a day) of Sendmail generated emails, that= again crashes WebCat. I now require authentication to for Sendmail, and I s=aw a small number of attempts in the email log, before, presumably giving up=. We shall see.Is there any way this is not an attack, but WebCat somehow gone crazy? I hav=e looked at the email folders and there are not any emails in there or being= generated, like I would expect if it was some kind of loop. There have been= no recent changes to the one and only page (out of thousands) that uses Sen=dmail - in fact I commented out the Sendmail code earlier today.I have had to restart the server four times today, and I am hoping the authe=ntication puts an end to the attack(?) at least until they find another DOS v=ector.Why someone would attack me is a whole other bucket of fish-Steve-=20
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So=E2=80=A6 I have been getting attacked, I think. Last month it was a ton o=f emails that used my return address but didn't get post with my SMTP server=, and my console logs showed constant attempts to get through ports (OS X se=rver, no one got in). The constant activity would crash WebCat.That went away, but now I have been getting a ton (hundreds sent in a few mi=nutes of each other, several times a day) of Sendmail generated emails, that= again crashes WebCat. I now require authentication to for Sendmail, and I s=aw a small number of attempts in the email log, before, presumably giving up=. We shall see.Is there any way this is not an attack, but WebCat somehow gone crazy? I hav=e looked at the email folders and there are not any emails in there or being= generated, like I would expect if it was some kind of loop. There have been= no recent changes to the one and only page (out of thousands) that uses Sen=dmail - in fact I commented out the Sendmail code earlier today.I have had to restart the server four times today, and I am hoping the authe=ntication puts an end to the attack(?) at least until they find another DOS v=ector.Why someone would attack me is a whole other bucket of fish-Steve-=20
Stephen Reiss
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