Re: [mailop] The "NEW" Outlook

2024-12-12 Thread Francois Petillon via mailop
On 12/12/24 16:44, Scott Q. wrote: I understood that. You  temp block the MS IP that shows high failure rate, which may or may not be warranted. No. I'm blocking the accounts, not the IPs. I won't block an IP that is clearly authenticating on compromised accounts. My fault for the misunderst

Re: [mailop] The "NEW" Outlook

2024-12-12 Thread Francois Petillon via mailop
On 12/12/24 16:19, Scott Q. wrote: How can you tell if they are compromised if legitimate user A connects from France via 'New' Outlook and hacker B connects from Australia via 'New' Outlook ? I'm afraid you misunderstood my previous answers. When an IP is behaving like : IP 4.233.216.98 (8075

Re: [mailop] The "NEW" Outlook

2024-12-12 Thread Francois Petillon via mailop
On 12/12/24 14:52, Scott Q. wrote: So are you guys blocking the connections from the MS ASN ? Does that result in 'New' Outlook not being able to login at all or not ? No, we disable accounts when the credentials seem to be compromised. François ___

Re: [mailop] The "NEW" Outlook

2024-12-12 Thread Francois Petillon via mailop
On 12/11/24 17:19, Scott Q. via mailop wrote: It seems MS is pushing really hard for the 'NEW' Outlook adoption. This software, along with Outlook Mobile and myMail (mail.ru), etc, cache logon information on their own infrastructure and then basically proxy the connection to the service provider.

Re: [mailop] Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook

2023-11-10 Thread Francois Petillon via mailop
On 11/10/23 16:54, Carsten Schiefner via mailop wrote: sort of triggered by Benoit's recent and absolutely spot-hitting rant about Microsoft's inability resp. unwillingness to appropriately deal with spam complaints, I thought I should share this article: Microsoft lays hands on login data: Bew

Re: [mailop] How to address Microsoft if spaming Office365 customers cause collateral damage for other Office365 customers sharing the same IP?

2023-03-31 Thread Francois Petillon via mailop
On 3/30/23 18:36, Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop wrote: I try to tackle this by analyzing domains present in mail headers and rejecting mails accordingly. As you've experienced, talking the Office365 customers into leaving their crappy host isn't working, so I will have to accept that a signific

Re: [mailop] Is there any analysis on root causes of mail account break-ins?

2021-11-17 Thread Francois Petillon via mailop
On 11/17/21 9:12 PM, Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote: > If you can get the passwords that are going around in these database dumps and > compare them to email accounts in your system, test those passwords against > their email accounts using automation, and then force a password change it if > mat

Re: [mailop] Is there any analysis on root causes of mail account break-ins?

2021-11-17 Thread Francois Petillon via mailop
On 11/17/21 9:10 AM, Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop wrote: > Here I want to focus on hacked mail accounts. I can think of two major root > causes but I have no idea about their relative significance: >  * Easily guessable passwords, with two subcauses for exploits: > o Brute force authenticati

Re: [mailop] Gmail out of office replies

2020-09-11 Thread Francois Petillon via mailop
On 9/11/20 2:07 PM, Kieran Cooper via mailop wrote: > Does anyone have any knowledge of how Gmail decides when to send an > auto-reply? RFC 3834 : 2. When (not) to send automatic responses An automatic responder MUST NOT blindly send a response for every message received. In practice

Re: [mailop] Abusix Potentially Compromised Account Report

2020-04-06 Thread Francois Petillon via mailop
On 3/24/20 11:36 AM, Steve Freegard via mailop wrote: > I also found that I wasn't discarding some drive-by stuff which is more akin > to > what you were talking about so I've also corrected that which will further > reduce the noise, raise the quality and reduce the number of daily reports > bei

Re: [mailop] Opinions? Email Abuse over TOR Network? (spamtraps)

2020-02-24 Thread Francois Petillon via mailop
On 2/22/20 7:47 PM, Alessandro Vesely via mailop wrote: > Even without 2FA, a password different from "12345" is probably desperately > hard to guess. _No_ When users tend to re-use the same password on different web sites or a slightly different password from site to site, guessing a password mi

Re: [mailop] Avoiding bounces - custom spamfilter behind real-spamfilter that reject mails

2019-10-24 Thread Francois Petillon via mailop
On 10/24/19 2:19 PM, Stefan Bauer via mailop wrote: > Sometimes, customers feel clever and have another local mailfilter on > site, that rejects mails, after we already have accepted them at > spamfilter level. > So the reject generates bounces at our spamfilters. Howto handle this? _If_ your clie