Autor: Grzegorz Mielcarek (GREG_at_chicken-et1.iie.pz.zgora.pl)
Data: Tue 05 Nov 1996 - 09:21:58 MET
Czy nas w Polsce takze takie cos czeka? A moze taka sytuacja miala
juz miejsce. Ku przestrodze podsylam ciekawa informacje.
Grzegorz
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# T-Offline
# A mass mail attack has shut down the Email service of Germany's largest
# online service T-Online for the recent days. A total of 3.4 million Email
# messages were sent out using several T-Online accounts, praising some adult
# services offered in T-Online's proprietary BTX area (which, of course, have
# immediately been scrapped following the spam attack.)
# "90 per cents of the mail was incorrectly addressed, charging the system
# even more. Every computer must break down there," said a spokesman for
# T-Online's operator, Deutsche Telekom. (The spammers probably exploited the
# fact that every T-Online member can be reached under a numerical address
# such as 012345678-0001_at_t-online.de. Of course, addresses like these can
# easily be generated by a computer programme -- a method also used to flood
# CompuServe members' mailboxes with junk.)
# Meanwhile, T-Online seems to have succeeded in stopping the mail attack.
# Officials said their Email service will be fully re-established by
# tomorrow. They dismissed speculations that the attack was directly targeted
# at state-owned Deutsche Telekom which is to go public in a few day's time.
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Technical University of Zielona Gora, POLAND
Grzegorz MIELCAREK - Network & System Manager
e-mail: G.Mielcarek_at_iie.pz.zgora.pl
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BACKUP YOUR LIFE!! IF YOU LOOSE ONE IT'S GOOD TO HAVE A COPY
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