NTL Customer Spams MSN E-Mails
Posted: 19th Feb, 2003 By: MarkJ
It's emerged today that the UKs largest cable operator, NTL, has been blocked from accessing MSN e-mail accounts following a SPAM attack on the service by one of the operators broadband customers:
According to NTL, the problem arose as one of its cable modem customers incorrectly configured his mail server on his PC so it could be used to forward email. The customer's mail server was then used by a third party to send spam email to MSN customers.
MSN identified the mail server as being registered to NTL and blocked email from any NTL address.
Justin Leese, technical director at NTL, said: "[We have] notified the customer and closed the vulnerability. We are in touch with Microsoft to explain that it was a NTL's customer's own mail system that was being used as a relay not the NTL mail system."
The Web-User item reports that both NTL and MSN are working to restore normal service as soon as possible.
According to NTL, the problem arose as one of its cable modem customers incorrectly configured his mail server on his PC so it could be used to forward email. The customer's mail server was then used by a third party to send spam email to MSN customers.
MSN identified the mail server as being registered to NTL and blocked email from any NTL address.
Justin Leese, technical director at NTL, said: "[We have] notified the customer and closed the vulnerability. We are in touch with Microsoft to explain that it was a NTL's customer's own mail system that was being used as a relay not the NTL mail system."
The Web-User item reports that both NTL and MSN are working to restore normal service as soon as possible.
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