Questions tagged [spoofing]
Spoofing is an activity when a person or program try to impersonates itself as another.
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Can TCP Packets Be Spoofed? How to handle fake SYN requests / identify who is responsible for these packets?
Long story short, my server's system load is off the charts, but nothing is taxing the CPU script or program wise. It appears that it is under a TCP Syn flood attack, but I cannot figure out how to ...
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Locked server because of IP spoofing
I have hetzner server. Inside this server there is Docker service which inside creates a few containers. Inside this containers I create vpn connections with openvpn. After connection I make some ...
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Getting Spoofed - DMARC , DKIM and SPF are properly setup (AFIK)
I have been testing my DMARC policy for some weeks and I ran into this issue. Background:
SPF - setup and working
DKIM - set up and working (AFIK)
DMARC - set up and working - looking for alignments ...
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Is there a way to check the DNS registration date when scanning emails on Office 365?
We've just caught an email spoofing attack on our business, and it's not the first like this. Bad actor registers a DNS name very similar to a company we work with and then sends messages purporting ...
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Internal Address Spoofing using Outlook SMTP Server
Is there a way to harden Exchange Online to prevent spoofing of internal addresses using SMTP?
For example, if I connect to Outlook's SMTP server and issue the following commands:
HELO domain.com
MAIL ...
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Duplicate traffic while spoofing an interface
to sum up my issue, I have a linux router that has 3 network interfaces:
a wlan interface acting as a DHCP server, upon which I manage the device, not in the scope of this question.
a lan interface, ...
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Network is gone when I start arp spoofing [closed]
So for context I have two virtual machines one is running on kali linux which is the "Hacker's" machine and the other one is running on windows 10 pro which is supposed to be the victim's ...
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Router forces to use netcard's hardware mac
I'm trying to connect to a network that manages device connections by it's mac.
So, I want to connect a device, which has no interface to connect it properly by itself
I decided to use a different ...
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How to hide restricted nginx subdomains?
To hide a restricted location, e.g.
location /secret/ {
allow 10.0.0.0/24;
deny all;
}
one could set
error_page 403 =404 /404.html;
error_page 404 /404.html;
to make impossible to distinguish a ...
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Prevent spoofing - SPF, DKIM, DMARC in place
I am just a developer handling this issue for our small organization, so apologies in advance if I have missed anything obvious.
We use Rackspace Cloud as our email provider. Our emails started going ...
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How to block spoofed mail from *.host.com
I'm currently running a centOS server with directadmin and custombuild.
I keep getting spoofed phishing mails with spoofed from addresses that have SPF setup properly.
Spamassassin gives it a score 1....
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Server IP spoofed and attacking
I have a server that has been reported as an attacker since January, finally today I found some information about these attacks, however none of the logs on my server shows anything similar. As a ...
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Allowing Messages from IP Address DMARC
I'm still learning infrastructure stuff and need to ask a question which relates to DMARC. A user in the organisation has an app which is sending marketing messages to staff within the business. The ...
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iptables and SNAT spoofing
So we are working with iptables at class and I've been testing some rules in the NAT table. As far as I know SNAT changes the IP source of a packet to which the rule dictates but what I tested does ...
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Possibilities to protect network traffic in datacenter without adding much latency
I am looking for possibilities (and their pros and cons) for protecting network traffic of the components of a a time-critical application in a data center. The aim is minimizing the damage an ...
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Preventing a Large Number of Failed Login Attempts from FAKE SPOOFED IPs?
My system log file (/var/log/auth.log) is showing hundreds and hundreds of different IP's trying to log into my system. How can I prevent all these attacks? It looks like all the IP addresses are ...
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It's 2020, is it still implausible to set up a "secure" open resolver?
In reference to this question, last updated five years ago.
I'm interested in setting up a public DNS server as a personal project, but I'm aware that open resolvers make it extremely easy to amplify ...
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Googlecast SSDP and MDNS queries on network despite not having any chromecast applications installed in main computer
As title states,
Ive detected some MDNS queries from a googlecast address, which is strange since i don't have any googlecast apps or similar installed.
Additionally My PC is sending SSDP packets to ...
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first step to combat display name spoofing on postfix
lately we receive a lot of display name spoofed emails in our company, impersonating customers and suppliers.
Since my co-workers unfortunately do not pay too much attention to security warnings, etc. ...
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What is the point of a bot spoofing various ancient user agents while "GET / HTTP/1.1"?
I found the following interesting traffic in my apache log:
213.159.213.236 - - [16/Dec/2019:03:02:03 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 3797 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; FSL 7.0....
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How to use my router's Mac Address on Pfsense installed on Esxi
My ISP bind my router's Mac address so only this router can connect to their pppoe server, now I want to connect it on Pfsense installed on Esxi for better configuration options but pppoe server is ...
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Outlook Inbox after spoofing attack is empty. Incoming mails not coming through in Inbox
Supposedly, a spoofing mail was sent to a internal and hundreds of external people from our user's account last Wednesday. Since Friday afternoon, her Outlook Inbox is shown empty and she is not able ...
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Why are these popular SMTP providers suggesting I use a subdomain?
When adding a new mail domain to my Mailgun account, I noticed a message informing me I should use a subdomain instead. Intrigued by this I clicked on the FAQ link they provided, but unfortunately it ...
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Many requests over port 445 on Ubuntu VPS, what could it mean? [duplicate]
I own a small VPS hosted by Hetzner on which i run a small Minecraft game server. The VPS is running on Ubuntu, and the only software i installed are Java JRE and the required software to run a ...
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Using DMARC techniques to block Backscatter
We run a small email (receiving not bulk sending) service (~ 300 domains or so) for our customers and are just starting to introduce DMARC. One of the reasons for doing so is to help stop backscatter ...
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How to stop Backscatter (NDR) from spoofed Mail address?
some one is sending mails from a spoofed mail account from our domain ([email protected]) to hundreds, sometimes thousands of non existant russian E-Mail addresses.
The web hosts send out NDRs ...
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Rewrite email (RFC822) From address to match MAIL FROM (RFC821) envelope address postfix
I'm taking steps to harden my outgoing postfix SMTP server. I want to prevent users from spoofing their sender address.
When sending email with postfix SMTP the sender is identified in three ways:
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Prevent from being spoofed by sendgrid
Recently we received an odd mail coming from [email protected] to [email protected]
The problem is that address1 didn't send any email to address2. The email was sent using sendgrid.
Sendgrid ...
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Make program think that it's connecting to one IP, but spoof it with another [closed]
There's program that can connect to servers, but it's limited to 6 predefined IPs (although it has ability to connect to other IPs, don't ask why and how). I can't modify it.
I need to connect to ...
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Is there a way to reserve a tcp port for an executable on a Linux Server?
I am designing a security policy for a server program on Linux. I wish to reserve a tcp port number-say 8888, to and only to that executable of the program to listen to. Then I could turn the program ...
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Whats the purpose of getting daily DMARC reports from google about my Mail Server?
I've been getting DMARC reports from google everyday after setting this up on my domain to prevent domain spoofing. Do I really need to have this daily report? I've never opened the attached zip file ...
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SpamAssassin, Postfix, and Multiple Addresses in From Header
I'm working on a problem that I'm seeing with an email scanning server (MailScanner, Spamassassin, Postfix, etc.), and From header spoofing. Unfortunately, some of the versions of these components ...
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Spoofing/Spam received from GSuite alias accounts
The company currently have 2 domains registered: "dom1.com" and "dom1.com.ex". "dom1.com" is hosted and is the main domain associated on our GSuite account to create user accounts to send mails, "dom1....
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How config Exim4 to accept only authenticated sender
How can I setup Exim to accept only authenticated email from managed domain address?
I'm receiving spoofed email.. from myself.
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DNS Spoofing in Bind9 DNS Server
I configured Ubuntu Server 18.04 as a master DNS server.
zone ==> google.com
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; BIND data file for local loopback interface
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$TTL 12h
@ IN SOA ns1.google.com. root.google.com. (
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Possibility of detecting MAC address spoofing in a decentralized network? [closed]
The paper that has been published here: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3282283 proposes a consensus algorithm based on distributed voting process in which it claims that it would be possible to ...
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Firewall block all but one ip spoofing
We have a server which accepts traffic coming from a few sources (ip addresses) and accept's it (using firewalld). All other traffic inbound is blocked.
How likely is the risk that somebody ...
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Redirect purely LAN communication to a different interface and port (Linux)
I have the following situation:
One interface (device) identified by an IP address of 192.168.1.x (I1) that's connecting through whatever service to another interface with IP 192.168.1.y (I2) to port (...
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Cloudflare "Access" service real security
Cloudflare Access is a new attractive feature from Cloudflare, based more or less on Google's BeyondCorp (a reverse-proxy with login which should replace VPN in accessing internal network applications)...
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RDP Server under attack; IP address used is our server address
I have setup a Windows 2016 server for remote desktop access, and installed RDPGuard to block brute force attacks. This worked well for a few days and RDPGuard blocked out a number of IP addresses.
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Concerns about SPF for external provider
I´m searching for some arguments to avoid the creation of an SPF record for an external survey provider.
Example: Division inside a company (abcd) wants to send survey mails to external recipients ...
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fatal error in master.cf when restart postfix
I follow a guide to prevent spoofed emails in my mail server
first I installed postfix-policyd-spf-perl
apt-get install postfix-policyd-spf-perl
second I added this lines to the ...
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How to prevent an openly recursive DNS server from being abused for DNS amplification [closed]
I have a business need to provide an open and recursive DNS. This DNS has of course been heavily abused by DNS amplification attacks, resulting in 5-10 Mbps sustained outbound load only caused by ...
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Iptables rules to prevent IP Spoofing
We had following below iptables rules that exist in our web front-end boxes to prevent IP Spoofing:
-A INPUT -s 255.0.0.0/8 -j LOG --log-prefix "Spoofed source IP"
-A INPUT -s 255.0.0.0/8 -j DROP
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Is it possible to override a single domain name using dnsmasq?
I have a server application that I'm running two instances of, production and development, namely:
prod.example.com (10.0.0.1)
dev.example.com (10.0.0.2)
A third-party has written a client ...
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How to check my network for IP spoofing availability?
I want to test if my network or even my ISP blocks spoofed IP packets. I am running a Debian Linux OS.
I found this nice tool, but it's not working on my system ..
https://www.caida.org/projects/...
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ARP spoofing on switch across subnets
Consider a switch without any VLAN's defined with 2 subnets configured. Is it possible to ARP spoof from one subnet to another?
According to Evans reply in What are the implications of having two ...
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TLS auth issue: '[email protected] "via" SendGrid.me' email is dropped by Exchange [closed]
Looking for clarification about what this Exchange 2007 Management Shell (Powershell) command does and how it affects TLS at the Receive Connector: ms-exch-smtp-accept-authoritative-domain-sender
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Change the domain in the 'via' that Gmail shows as the result of a wrong SPF record
So I have a small Linux webserver, it is running the Direct Admin control panel and everything is working fine. For each domain, SPF and DKIM records are present in the DNS and mail is (as far as I ...
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Exchange 2013 -Prevent Spam emails from outside but with my internal domain name
my apologies if this question was asked and answered previously.
we have Exchange 2013 email server. We have been seeing some of the emails are coming from outside but using our own domain name which ...
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