Questions tagged [spoofing]
Spoofing is an activity when a person or program try to impersonates itself as another.
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Can't reach non default (second) interface (that is not used as default gateway) when ip source address spoofing on Meraki MX84 is enabled
I ran into a network issue struggeling with IP source address spoofing protection.
Please see that part of the setup:
Client A: (One network interface)
IP: 10.10.230.26 (VLAN 230), Gateway: 10.10....
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wishing to blacklist email based on partial email addresses SpamAssasin
I am getting emails where part of the domain name is the same. For instance, i am getting spam from xxx@msg123.com and xxx@msgabc.com. I would like to blacklist any email address that has the ...
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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 (randomname@ourdomain.com) 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 adress1@company.com to address2@company.com
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
IĀ“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: 'CompanyA@exmple.com “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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Checking SMTP headers for spoofed email (did client authenticate?)
I have been using rackspace email service, and I am finding that rogue emails are seemingly coming from harry@mydomain.com to james@mydomain.com but were never actually sent by that user.
As per ...
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Exchange not checking SPF record for own domain
I have an interesting issue with Exchange where it appears to check and stamp spoofed messages from external domains but not ones it has setup to send from. For example I can spoof a message from 1@...
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How can I prevent spoofed emails from outside thats using my internal accepted domain
I'm receiving spam emails sent from my own domain to my own domain. I'm using Exchange 2013.
Example:
myemail@mydomain.com is being used to send spam to myemail@mydomain.com.
I can successfully ...
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Spoofing a duplicate MAC address on an interface not connecting to the network where the original MAC is
I'm trying to run a PHP project on a test server.
The project uses an internal framework that has been modified so it will only run on the production server by checking the MAC address in eth0, and ...
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Using SPF for spoof protection
I'm trying to work through properly configuring SPF for my domain. We have two MX servers that only receive mail, and two outbound relay servers which we expect to list in our SPF record.
We also ...
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What will happen in a network if multiple devices have the same MAC address? [closed]
What will happen in something like a wifi connection where different laptops are set with the same MAC address .
To make it more interesting what will happen if there are multiple devices with same ...
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Setting up an SPF record for a shared hosting service with lots of email gateways
My website is on a Hostgator shared host, and I need to set up SPF for my email so my outgoing emails won't get bounced. So, I have to add a TXT record to the DNS for my domain, listing all possible ...
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How can I reject mails coming from a fake domain or a fake user in a real domain?
I have an exchange server 2010 recently installed and I receive a test with 3 step to check the security of my server. below the test
Check if my server receive from fake domain.
Check if my server ...
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Prevent IP Spoofing on OpenVPN tun
I have a question regarding IP Spoofing and authentication. I have an OpenVPN server in TUN mode with many untrusted clients in the same VPN network, and I was wondering if one client is able to spoof ...
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Is it possible to make me send an email by opening a malicious email? [closed]
I know I don't have much info on this problem/question so I will delete if everyone downvotes or votes to close/delete.
Is it possible for someone to make an email look like I sent it simply by me ...
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Email Spoofed From Exchange Server
One of my exchange users got an email that bounced back to them. They did not send the email and I'm a little confused at how they got it. I looked through the logs and do not see the email leaving ...
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Can a DNS server (specified by its IP address) be spoofed?
When a DNS server is specified (in my case in OSĀ X, in the Network Preferences), can it be spoofed (for instance by an organization with the power of a government)?
I am asking the question because ...
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Can I use ASA5505 to spoof the reply to a heartbeat request?
I have a CISCO ASA 5505 in a home office. It has two subnet, public and private. There is a wifi belkin router on the private net, which provides wifi for some users. That belkin router sends out ...
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Dovecot Sieve allows spoofing through LMTP
I have set up Postfix to block spoofing your email (you can only send emails as yourself):
smtpd_sender_restrictions =
reject_authenticated_sender_login_mismatch
I have set up Sieve and ...
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What use are systems that ban IP addresses if all the evildoers spoof them anyways
Many anti-spam or web applications with a security component give the ability to ban IP addresses. In my experience any bot, person or other entity that is truly nefarious is using an endless supply ...
