[ipac] Exploit of horizon email capability

[Tyckoson, Mary Ellen]

Has anyone else experienced what seems to be a scripted use of the email
a bib capability in HIP to launch an attack?  We suddenly got around 70
automated replies from the letters address for the Washington Post that
appear to respond to a handful of bibs sent over and over again from HIP
to that address.

We've had some cases where spammer seems to search out comment forms on
our Web site and submit them with typical spam junk via some automated
means.  Annoying to the person how has to read the comments mailbox, but
that's all.  This latest seems to be using HIP's mail sending capability
to target a specific mailbox - at least that was my take given that it
was the Washington Post.

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Mary Ellen Tyckoson
Library Program Manager
San Joaquin Valley Library System
559-488-3462
Mary.Tyckoson at sjvls.org
"Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups" - Wetherns Law
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