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George W. Bush and John Kerry may be tied in the polls, but Bush appears to be well ahead of Kerry in the number of security holes on his official campaign website. . . .. George W. Bush and John Kerry may be tied in the polls, but Bush appears to be well ahead of Kerry in the number of security holes on his official campaign website. On Sunday, security analyst Richard Smith did a quick check of the Bush and Kerry campaign sites and found several security problems on each, all of which are common on many other websites. But after Smith posted a report of his findings to several security lists, others opted to do a deeper analysis and found some significant problems on Bush's website. One researcher used a commercial program called GFI LANguard to scan Bush's site. He said he found over 30 security faults. The researcher asked not to be identified because of concern that his scans could be construed as illegal under the Patriot Act. He submitted a digital copy of the results of the scan to Wired News. According to the scan, the security problems on the Bush site include potential vulnerabilities that could conceivably allow a malicious attacker to gain remote control over the server, crash it, tamper with information on Web pages and compromise stored information. The link for this article located at wired.com is no longer available. . George W. Bush and John Kerry may be tied in the polls, but Bush appears to be well ahead of Kerry i. kerry, george, polls, appears, ahead. . Anthony Pell
Freeloading commercial emailers do more than fill your mailbox with unsolicited email. They also steal server time and network bandwidth, and have even crashed mailservers. And if your mail server can be used as a relay for spam, you may find your site "blackholed", cut off from sending email to many sites, in addition to getting thousands of angry email messages from the victims of the spam. . . .. Freeloading commercial emailers do more than fill your mailbox with unsolicited email. They also steal server time and network bandwidth, and have even crashed mailservers. And if your mail server can be used as a relay for spam, you may find your site "blackholed", cut off from sending email to many sites, in addition to getting thousands of angry email messages from the victims of the spam. It used to be easy to track down spammers. And all it took to block spam were firewall or mail server rules that denied access from the spammers' domain. Spammers today use commercial tools designed to hide the source of the spam, as well as use third party sites as relays so the spam won't be blocked before it reaches its victims. SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol) not only makes spam possible, but it also makes it possible to track back spam to its source. All it takes is the ability to read and understand mail headers, and knowing something about how SMTP works. By denying spammers access to relay sites, we can stamp out unsolicited commercial email (UCE). The link for this article located at Rik Farrow is no longer available. . Freeloading commercial emailers cause mailbox clutter and server issues, threatening email security and performance.. mail server protection, spam control, email management, network bandwidth, secure email. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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