Monday, February 16, 2009

How a Simple Admin Error can Get Your Mail Serve Hijacked

If you have set up a mail server then I do feel that you should really be very careful. Even a single mistake can lead to the downfall of your server and you will definitely find your mail server hijacked. If you will not be careful then you will easily find out that very soon somebody has got the hold of your mail server.

Until you are ready, you will find more than thousands of spam mail being sent by the spammer and your DNS has been blacklisted and your customer mail started bouncing.

This is really one of the questions which will really be hitting your mind. There is no doubt that if you will find the mail server hijacked then you are in serious trouble. The question really is simple and straight forward and that is how you can save your self from the mail server hijacking. The answer takes us deep into cryptography. I must say that the cryptography is the only way through which you can save your mail server from hijacking. You must know that if you want to feel safe then you will have to safeguard your password.

At present there is much software available in the market which can crack the password which you will set for your mail server. Hence the question really is that how can your safeguard your password.

You must have seen the replace option in various editing software. Write any word and then follow the technique such that replaces all the r with t and so on. This is a simple way of cryptography which you will find it easier to encrypt your password. However if you want to feel more safe then you will have to use the powerful encrypting techniques like such as the RSA algorithms and the DES algorithms. These are the cryptographic standards which will definitely help you a lot in protecting your mail server.

I would again repeat that if you want to really safeguard your mail server or anything related to computer then it is quiet sure that you will have to use some very powerful cryptographic techniques. You can not really neglect that hackers have become very powerful. They can really decipher almost everything. If you will talk about the DES then you will also come to know that even this powerful algorithm has been deciphered.

This is really one of the matters which can make any body frightened. You might find your clients question that their bank are not accepting their mail and taking them as spam. You must know that this all happen because of spammers and I do feel that you will have to take the immediate steps.

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