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LexiConn – December 2008 Newsletter
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In this Month’s Newsletter:
* Password Security
* Dovecot Mailserver
* Happy Holidays from LexiConn!
* Featured Client: logosportswear.com

Password Security

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Is your password too easy to guess?

Over the past few months, spammers and hackers have been focusing on an
easier way to compromise and break into accounts on servers. Specifically,
they use common usernames and easy to guess passwords to try to access
POP/IMAP email boxes. Once they guess one correctly, they pass this access
information out to other spammers/hackers so the account can be used to
send spam, and phishing emails. Of course, now the spammer/hacker can also
read the emails in the compromised email box in the hopes of finding
potentially sensitive information.

To combat this, LexiConn has an intrusion detection system (IDS) /
firewall that blocks an IP after only a handful of wrongly entered
usernames/passwords. Where this protection breaks down is when someone who
has a POP box username of “joe” for example chooses a password like
“joe123″. All it takes is a spammer to try this combination and they would
then be able to login and use the account for spamming.

In order to tighten security, we have implemented a stricter password
system in the Account Manager that does not allow these easy to guess
passwords to be put in place. Additionally, if your current password is
easy to guess, or has the username included in the password itself, we ask
that you reset your password for your own protection. This can be done in
the Account Manager at:

http://www.lexiconn.com/clients/login.html

Once logged in, go to: Utilities -> Change Password

Dovecot Mailserver

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Dovecot has replaced uw imap as the IMAP/POP3 server on our network.
Dovecot is an IMAP/POP3 server for Linux, written primarily with security
in mind. It offers faster IMAP/POP3 access, uses indexes to reduce disk
load, allows concurrent IMAP/POP3 logins, and offers enhanced SSL security
for IMAPS/POP3S SSL access.

This upgrade was made several weeks ago, and was completely transparent.
Nothing different needs to be done by end users who check mail on our
network.

If you are interested in reading more about Dovecot, reference:

http://www.dovecot.org/

Happy Holidays from LexiConn!

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We would like to wish all of you a happy, healthy holiday season and a
prosperous 2009! The turn of the year is always a great time for us to
evaluate the services we provide to you and examine how we can most
effectively improve and innovate moving forward.

Our 13th anniversary is right around the corner in February of the coming
year! We appreciate your business, and providing the best possible customer
and technical service will continue to be our highest priority, just as it
has been since our inception. We look forward to working with you in 2009!

Featured Client: logosportswear.com

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This month’s featured client is logosportswear.com. LogoSportswear,
located in Cheshire, CT, offers one-stop shopping for one of the largest
selections of custom sportswear and personalization options available on
the web.

http://www.logosportswear.com/

For more detailed information on this month’s featured client as well as a
listing of all past featured clients, please go to:

http://support.lexiconn.com/news/viewforum.php?f=4

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As always, feel free to contact us with any questions you may have.
Complete contact and support options can be found at:
http://www.lexiconn.com/support.html

Sincerely,
- The LexiConn Team

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