Fighting Spammers With Honeypots: Part 2
Most of the time, a spammer connecting to the open proxy server will try to send an initial email in order to check how the proxy is working. This moment can be crucial if you want to fool him properly.
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Fighting Spammers With Honeypots: Part 1
This paper will evaluate the usefulness of using honeypots to fight spammers. The first part of the article will explain some background information on spam. Then, we will try to understand how honeypots may detect, slow and stop such activities while promoting a clean Internet. Finally we will conclude with some future perspectives.
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Anti-Spam Solutions and Security Part 2
This second part now focuses on the various types of challenge-based systems and cryptographic solutions. While there are many different aspects to these solutions, this paper only discusses the most common and significant concerns -- this paper is not intended to be a complete listing of implementation options, solutions, and issues.
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Anti-Spam Solutions and Security Part 1
The first part of this two-part paper looks at filters and reverse lookup solutions. The second part focuses on the various types of challenges, such as challenge-response and computational challenges as well as cryptographic solutions. While there are many different aspects to these solutions, this paper only discusses the most common and significant concerns -- this paper is not intended to be a complete listing of implementation options, solutions, and issues.
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Successful Spam Filtering
Electronic junk mail is damaging to both mail systems and employee productivity. Nearly every enterprise is affected by it, yet, according to Gartner Research, only 10 percent have spam-filtering technologies in place. This lapse is not for lack of filtering technologies; there are many products from which to choose. Filtering solutions that fail to consider business requirements, however, will not succeed. This article will examine "best practices" for a successful implementation.
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The Anti Spam Challenge - Minimizing False Positives
As costly as spam is, the cost of incorrectly filtering legitimate email is much higher. Whereas some consumer anti spam solutions consider a small number of false-positives to be acceptable, in the business environment achieving zero false-positives is absolutely critical. To address this dilemma companies must explore anti spam solutions that learn and adapt to individual organizations.
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Why Corporations Need to Worry About Phishing
Phishing is much more than a problem faced by individual consumers, it is also a business problem faced by any organization that has employees or does business online. Failure to protect employees and customers from phishing attacks can have a devastating impact on a company's reputation and can cause significant legal liabilities. Phishing is a relatively new form of online fraud that focuses on fooling the victim into providing sensitive financial or personal information to a bogus website that bears a significant resemblance to a tried and true online brand. Typically, the victim provides information into a form on the imposter site, which then relays the information to the fraudster.
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How Spammers Fool Spam Filters
Effectively stopping spam over the long-term requires much more than blocking individual IP addresses and creating rules based on keywords that spammers typically use. The increasing sophistication of tools spammers use coupled with the increasing number of spammers in the wild has created a hyper-evolution in the variety and volume of spam. The old ways of blocking the bad guys just don't work anymore.
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Evict the Spammers from Your Inbox
Spamming has become a profitable business, driven by the low cost of sending email compared to other direct marketing techniques. The high return on investment for spammers has resulted in an overwhelming volume of unwanted messages in personal and business email boxes. This article explores how to implement an effective anti spam program.
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Phishing - A new age weapon
Phishing is a form of social engineering attack used by cyber criminals to steal sensitive information. Customers of leading banks have often been a target of Phishing. This article focuses on the security measures that financial service providers can take to prevent and manage a Phishing attack.
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