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Stats from the one billion spam messages blocked by Project Honey Pot over the last five years provide an insight into junk mail trends and spamming practices. The Honey Pot project was formed by a community of web administrators as an alliance against online fraud and abuse back in 2004. The group now numbers 40,000 members in 170 countries, making it the biggest effort of its kind on the web.. Last week, the group trapped its one billionth spam email message - an IRS phishing scam junk mail - since when the group has been poring through its archives, teasing out trends. Stats from the project reveal that Monday is the busiest day of the week for email spam, and Saturday the quietest. Spam volumes peak around 12:00 (GMT) and reach a low around 23:00 (GMT). Spam volumes drop nearly 21 per cent on Christmas Day and 32 per cent on New Year's Day, a sign that junk mailers take time off over the holidays just like everyone else. The link for this article located at The Register is no longer available. . Unearth findings from a vast collection of one billion unwanted emails intercepted by the Spam Detection Initiative, highlighting patterns in spam content and tactics.. Spam Analysis, Email Security, Cyber Threat Insights, Junk Mail Trends. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
In previous posts on web application email harvesting, and the distributed email harvesting honeypot, I commented on a relatively less popular threat - the foundation for sending spam and phishing emails, namely collecting publicly available email addresses. The other day I came across an email harvester and decided to comment on its configuration file. . Thankfully, there're many spam poison projects where these crawlers get directed to a huge number of randomly generated email addresses. And while the results are evident, namely they're picking them up and poisoning their databases with non-existent emails it is questionable if that's the best way to fight spam, since the spammers are going to send their message to anyone, even to the non-existent email addresses causing network load. Something else worth mentioning, these email harvesters are starting to pick up [at] and [dot] type of obfuscation too. The link for this article located at Dancho Danchev is no longer available. . Thankfully, there're many spam poison projects where these crawlers get directed to a huge number of. email, harvesting, previous, posts, application, distributed, honeypot. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
I don't know what to make of Scott Richter's claims that he is not a spammer, but rather a legitimate e-mail marketer. Three things are true about spam: (1) There are many spammers. (2) There are many legitimate e-mail marketers. (3) . . . . I don't know what to make of Scott Richter's claims that he is not a spammer, but rather a legitimate e-mail marketer. Three things are true about spam: (1) There are many spammers. (2) There are many legitimate e-mail marketers. (3) All of the spammers claim to be legitimate e-mail marketers. Scott Richter is one of the subjects in our recent feature story on spam, ehich looks at who's sending spam and why it's hard to stop them. The link for this article located at SecurityPipeline is no longer available. . I don't know what to make of Scott Richter's claims that he is not a spammer, but rather a legitimat. don't, scott, richter's, claims, spammer, rather, legitimat. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
E-mail security company CipherTrust wants your spam. The company is calling on surfers of all stripes to help it wage a fight against spam by sending their unsolicited mass e-mail to its new Web site, Spamarchive.org. The idea is to . . . . E-mail security company CipherTrust wants your spam. The company is calling on surfers of all stripes to help it wage a fight against spam by sending their unsolicited mass e-mail to its new Web site, Spamarchive.org. The idea is to create a vast public repository of spam, so makers of antispam tools can test their algorithms on the latest mass-messaging trends. "It's kind of like donating your spam to science," Paul Judge, director of research and development at CipherTrust, said. CipherTrust is soliciting volunteers to help it determine which messages constitute spam. It plans to put the database online in a few days and will collect spam messages on an ongoing basis. The link for this article located at ZDNet is no longer available. . E-mail security company CipherTrust invites all users to donate their spam for research and database building.. Spam Archive,CipherTrust,Email Security,Antispam Tools,Public Repository. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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