Re: Another Spamassassin upgrade problem

2011-03-18 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 23:28 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > Upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14 and getting this error message: > > /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: > /usr/local/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/Term/ReadKey/ReadKey.so: > > undefined symbol: Perl_pad_s

Re: Spamassassin upgrade problem

2011-03-18 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 23:26 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > On 3/18/2011 11:19 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > Doesn't seem like a SA error message. Where exactly do you get that, and > > what is the *full* log line? > > I figured it out. I had 2 problems. Those messages were caused by monit Yea

Another Spamassassin upgrade problem

2011-03-18 Thread Marc Perkel
Upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14 and getting this error message: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/Term/ReadKey/ReadKey.so: undefined symbol: Perl_pad_sv when running sa-compile or spamassassin -- Marc Perkel - Sale

Re: Spamassassin upgrade problem

2011-03-18 Thread Marc Perkel
On 3/18/2011 11:19 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 22:52 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Just upgrading from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14 and when I run Spamassassin (spamd) I get this: spamd: accept failed: Transport endpoint is not connected at /usr/bin/spamd line 1212 $ grep -rl

Re: Spamassassin upgrade problem

2011-03-18 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 22:52 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > Just upgrading from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14 and when I run Spamassassin > (spamd) I get this: > > spamd: accept failed: Transport endpoint is not connected at > /usr/bin/spamd line 1212 $ grep -rl 'Transport endpoint' . | wc -l 0 > What am

Spamassassin upgrade problem

2011-03-18 Thread Marc Perkel
Just upgrading from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14 and when I run Spamassassin (spamd) I get this: spamd: accept failed: Transport endpoint is not connected at /usr/bin/spamd line 1212 What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for your help. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com

RE: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread Hamad Ali
> Subject: Re: SA and Spear Phishing > From: guent...@rudersport.de > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:02:31 +0100 > [] > As I mentioned earlier, spear phishing (which are highly targeted) will > not have a hard time evadi

Re: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread jdow
On 2011/03/18 21:16, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 20:58 -0700, jdow wrote: Other obvious information to be filtered would include SSNs. For privacy reasons filter for numbers that look like SSNs, reflect to user with a were you sure wrapper, and if the user responds yes send

Re: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 20:47 -0700, jdow wrote: > Actually it might not be all that hard. Tweak some specific rule matches > that indicate a high probability of phishing or spearfishing to be > artificially high numbers. That will at least get them labeled as spam. This is a per-site approach only.

Re: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 19:59 -0700, John Hardin wrote: > On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > Did we just drop the spear, and downgrade to general phishing? > > For the purposes of my phishing rules project, yes. Oh, right -- sorry, previously saw this in the context of *targeted* s

Re: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 20:58 -0700, jdow wrote: > On 2011/03/18 19:08, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > Or, tell your users to *never* write down their password or any other > > account details in mail -- by policy, violation warrants getting fired > > next day. > > Bingo, you've hit on an outgoing a

RE: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread Hamad Ali
> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:42:25 -0700 > From: j...@earthlink.net > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: SA and Spear Phishing > > Now, I bet SpamAssassin could be run "twice", one with the standard setup > and the second one with extremely t

Re: Scanning Mailing-List Posts

2011-03-18 Thread jdow
On 2011/03/18 21:05, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 20:25 -0700, jdow wrote: Interesting: (I think you have bigger problems than mere spear-phishing. 1.6 RCVD_IN_NJABL_PROXYRBL: NJABL: sender is an open proxy [64p79p213p206 listed in comb

Scanning Mailing-List Posts (was: Re: SA and Spear Phishing)

2011-03-18 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 20:25 -0700, jdow wrote: > Interesting: (I think you have bigger problems than mere spear-phishing. > > 1.6 RCVD_IN_NJABL_PROXYRBL: NJABL: sender is an open proxy > > [64p79p213p206 listed in combined.njabl.org] > > 0.8 RCVD_IN_SORBS_SOCKS

Re: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread jdow
On 2011/03/18 18:38, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Hamad Ali wrote: - John Hardin said: Phishing is his next project, and that even a well trained naive bayes filter might not detect it. let's be on touch on this matter then. Any progress or collaboration is highly welcomed on my side

Re: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread jdow
On 2011/03/18 18:33, Hamad Ali wrote: Subject: Re: SA and Spear Phishing From: guent...@rudersport.de To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:02:35 +0100 (a) Never hand out your password. Less so in mail. No administrator ever will as

Re: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread jdow
(My reply to the direct copy) On 2011/03/18 17:38, Hamad Ali wrote: Interesting: (I think you have bigger problems than mere spear-phishing. > Spam detection software, running on the system "morticia.wizardess.wiz", has > identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message

Re: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Karsten Br?ckelmann wrote: On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 05:47 +0400, Hamad Ali wrote: - John Hardin said: Phishing is his next project, Have you considered the public SA ham/spam corpus, and monkey.org/~jose phishing corpus? Did we just drop the spear, and downgrade to genera

RE: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Hamad Ali wrote: Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:38:44 -0700 From: jhar...@impsec.org To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: SA and Spear Phishing On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Hamad Ali wrote: - John Hardin said: Phishing is his next pr

Re: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 05:47 +0400, Hamad Ali wrote: > > > - John Hardin said: Phishing is his next project, and that even a well > > > trained naive bayes filter might not detect it. let's be on touch on > > > this matter then. Any progress or collaboration is highly welcomed on > > > my side

Re: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 05:33 +0400, Hamad Ali wrote: > I think we have been always yelling that our users are stupid and blah, > and the reality still shows that users (which we hope to be educated) > are still the weakest element in the security chain. Some people still > focus on user training pro

RE: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread Hamad Ali
> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:38:44 -0700 > From: jhar...@impsec.org > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: SA and Spear Phishing > > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Hamad Ali wrote: > > > - John Hardin said: Phishing is his next project, and that even a wel

RE: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread Hamad Ali
> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:20:53 -0400 > From: d...@roaringpenguin.com > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: SA and Spear Phishing > > Spear phishing is inherently hard to detect because it's carefully > crafted for a small set of victims. W

Re: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Hamad Ali wrote: - John Hardin said: Phishing is his next project, and that even a well trained naive bayes filter might not detect it. let's be on touch on this matter then. Any progress or collaboration is highly welcomed on my side About the only thing I need fro

RE: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread Hamad Ali
> Subject: Re: SA and Spear Phishing > From: guent...@rudersport.de > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:02:35 +0100 > (a) Never hand out your password. Less so in mail. No administrator ever > will ask for the user's password. >

Re: Microsoft brings down major fake drug spam network

2011-03-18 Thread Bill Landry
On 3/18/2011 5:08 PM, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Bill Landry, Am 2011-03-18 15:11:47, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: No wonder I have seen such a huge drop in spam the past few days: ??? I get 18-26 mio spams (36 servers with 96.000 users) per day and nothing has changed. Please read

Re: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread David F. Skoll
> So when it comes to spear phish, in my view, a big question mark > arises to indicate that its risk is simply "unknow" to mankind. This > is unknown in the public domain as far as I know, which is why I > posted this mail to see if any of you see any spear phish within the > load of SPAM you dete

Re: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 04:38 +0400, Hamad Ali wrote: > > [...] The human mind can be a better filter against > > such spam than any result of mass checks. > One of the challenges behind spear phishing is that there is no single > performance evaluation against it. And this inlcludes user-training

RE: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread Hamad Ali
> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:06:15 -0700 > From: j...@earthlink.net > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: SA and Spear Phishing > And for well targeted spearfishing, he's still stuck because nothing > distinguishes it from his normal mail flow other than "unknown sender" > or DNS ch

Re: Microsoft brings down major fake drug spam network

2011-03-18 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 01:08 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > No wonder I have seen such a huge drop in spam the past few days: > > ??? I get 18-26 mio spams (36 servers with 96.000 users) per day and > nothing has changed. Please read the news (not only one) more carefully See the CBL repo

Re: Microsoft brings down major fake drug spam network

2011-03-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello David F. Skoll, Am 2011-03-18 20:12:01, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > I also haven't noticed much difference. ...and fortunately I use to block on SMTP level! More then 70% of the spams are blocked here. Spamassasin on USER level stop arround 25%... The rest are own filters. Thanks

Re: Microsoft brings down major fake drug spam network

2011-03-18 Thread David F. Skoll
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:08:42 +0100 Michelle Konzack wrote: > No, because there are ore then one Botnet of this size now... I also haven't noticed much difference. Regards, David.

Re: Microsoft brings down major fake drug spam network

2011-03-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Bill Landry, Am 2011-03-18 15:11:47, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > No wonder I have seen such a huge drop in spam the past few days: ??? I get 18-26 mio spams (36 servers with 96.000 users) per day and nothing has changed. Please read the news (not only one) more carefully > http:

Re: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 15:39 -0700, jdow wrote: > > You replied to a previous thread by creating a new thread. And that's > > pissing people off. > > Some may figure a person too dumb to use "reply" rather than creating > a new email is too hopeless to try to work with. Is he worth the energy > to

Re: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread jdow
On 2011/03/18 15:48, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: On 03/18, jdow wrote: As far as trust for mass checks "Hamad Ali" would have to trust the custodians of the mass check data with the raw email stream data he submits. No, participating in mass checks does not require sending in all your raw ma

Re: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread Darxus
On 03/18, jdow wrote: > As far as trust for mass checks "Hamad Ali" would have to trust the > custodians of the mass check data with the raw email stream data he > submits. No, participating in mass checks does not require sending in all your raw mail. It's nice when people do, but I believe most

Re: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread jdow
On 2011/03/17 13:28, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: On 03/18, Hamad Ali wrote: > No. Michael doesn't want to help you and Karsten doesn't want you to > participate in mass-checks because of your behavior on this list. Are you referring to ban on masschecks, or ban on receiving any s

Microsoft brings down major fake drug spam network

2011-03-18 Thread Bill Landry
No wonder I have seen such a huge drop in spam the past few days: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/enterprise-it/security/Microsoft-brings-down-major-fake-drug-spam-network/articleshow/7734903.cms Anyone else been noticing the decrease in spam? Bill

RE: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Hamad Ali Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:46:08 +0400 ## back on topic ## Anyway, I would highly appreciate any help on spear phishing. A solution, a guess, or just if you know whether you get spear phish at all is good information for me (I started to think that 99% of mail admi

Trust inside a Community (was: Re: SA and Spear Phishing)

2011-03-18 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 00:46 +0400, Hamad Ali wrote: > > Oh, well, the freemail address again is mostly unrelated to discussions > > on this list -- though yeah, while hiding behind that address is not a > > show-stopper, using your real address (especially if you provide mail > > services) might he

RE: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread Hamad Ali
> Subject: Re: SA and Spear Phishing > From: guent...@rudersport.de > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:38:19 +0100 > > Oh, well, the freemail address again is mostly unrelated to discussions > on this list -- though yeah, while hiding behind that address is not a > sho

Re: how to disable network tests?

2011-03-18 Thread Mark Martinec
> > when local dns server is working there must only be one single nameserver > > in resolv.conf and options rotate nust not be enabled > On Friday March 18 2011 04:04:23 Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > In the SA case, due to some issues with the underlying DNS Perl module, > IIRC the "first nameserv

Re: Performance on Spear Phishing?

2011-03-18 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:22:40 +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 12:58 +, Nigel Frankcom wrote: >> Unrelated but reminded me I hadn't posted a thanks to all those that >> responded about the sa-update rules. That's partly because I'm >> awaiting permission from clients to

Re: Script to generate whitelist based on INCOMING email????

2011-03-18 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 23:21 -0700, phuong hanu wrote: > actually, that's not the pb with mySQL command. i just wanna suggestion abt > the script that can extract info from email header in my email db to create > a list (whitelist) for future purpose. > IMO doing what you are asking about is asking

feeding bayes from the honeypot

2011-03-18 Thread LuKreme
OK, I have a 'honeypot' email address that is collecting spam. the bayes mentioning local.cf settings (SA 3.3.1) are: use_bayes 1 bayes_auto_learn 1 bayes_store_module Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore::SQL bayes_sql_dsn DBI:mysql:bayes:localhost:3306 bayes_sql_username user bayes_sql_password *pas