Exchange MVP Uses HD to catch bad guys

Chris Martin on June 9, 2009

Simon Butler, aka Sembee, Microsoft Exchange Server MVP, author of the technical articles at amset.info, and Director of Sembee Ltd.

Over the weekend one of my clients suffered an authenticated user attack on the SMTP interface of the Exchange 2003 server. This was detected by the monitoring tool I use, HoundDog, now GFI MAX. Read the rest of the article.

Very interesting article and a list of user names that this MVP has seen used for spamming. Also a brief explanation of how he successfully used HoundDog Software to keep on top of this and head-off a growing problem before it became a real problem.

About the Author: Chris Martin

Chris has a first class Honours degree in Software Engineering and Masters in Computer Science. He has the dubious distinction of being one of the earliest Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers (MCSE) in the UK. Chris started his career in the early 90s in Enterprise IT at NCR/AT&T as a Software Engineer and morphed into Infrastructure looking after company Network & Servers. He then spent some years in small business, forming and running an IT Support Company. Chris lives in Fife, Scotland with his partner, kid and two dogs. He’s a keen sportsman, cycling, running, golfing and various other (sometimes risky) outdoor pursuits. He claims (and we believe him) that he really wants to be an Egyptologist or Economist.