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Re: Microsoft announces new ways to bypass security controls

  • From: Mans Nilsson
  • Date: Mon Sep 15 03:24:34 2003 
Subject: Microsoft announces new ways to bypass security controls Date: Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 10:03:32PM -0400 Quoting Sean Donelan (sean@donelan.com):
> Of course, Microsoft isn't the only one with mail protocol security
> weaknesses.
> 
> POP3 is probably responsible for more cleartext passwords being
> transmitted over the Internet than any other network protocol.

That statement is nicely supported by my dnsiff logs from various 
networking conferences -- the top three have always been:

POP
webmail without SSL
other http apps without SSL. 

Below this we see IMAP, IM, telnet (rare) and a storm of snmp from
windows machines trying to manage HP printers.

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