Anti-Spam Measures (eBook)

Analysis and Design

Guido Schryen (Autor)

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2007 | 2007
XX, 209 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-71750-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines anti-spam measures in terms of their potentials, limitations, advantages, and drawbacks. These factors determine to which extent the measures can contribute to the reduction of spam in the long run. It examines legislative, organizational, behavioral, and technological anti-spam measures, including an insight into their effectiveness. In addition, it presents the conceptual development and analysis of an infrastructural e-mail framework, which features such a complementary application, and considers deployment issues.

Inhalt

Preface 6
Contents 8
List of Figures 11
List of Tables 13
Abbreviations 14
1 Introduction 17
1.1 The problem 17
1.2 The history 18
1.3 Goals, methodology, and architecture 19
2 Spam and its economic significance 22
2.1 Definition 22
2.2 Spam statistics 24
2.3 Spam categories 27
2.4 Economic harm 37
2.5 Economic benefit 41
3 The e-mail delivery process and its susceptibility to spam 43
3.1 The e-mail delivery process 43
3.2 SMTP’s susceptibility to spam 50
4 Anti-spam measures 57
4.1 Legislative measures 57
4.2 Organizational measures 68
4.3 Behavioral measures 70
4.4 Technological measures 73
5 A model-driven analysis of the effectiveness of technological anti- spam measures 108
5.1 A model of the Internet e-mail infrastructure 109
5.2 Deriving and categorizing the spam delivery routes 118
5.3 The effectiveness of route-specific anti-spam measures 125
6 An infrastructure framework for addressing spam 131
6.1 Overview of the framework 132
6.2 Organizational solution 135
6.3 Technological solution 140
6.4 Theoretical effectiveness 151
6.5 Deployment and impact on e-mail communication 152
6.6 Drawbacks and limitations 155
7 The empirical analysis of the abuse of e-mail addresses placed on the Internet 157
7.1 The relevance of inspecting e-mail address harvesting 157
7.2 Prior studies and findings 159
7.3 A methodology and honeypot conceptualization 161
7.4 The prototypic implementation of an empirical study 177
8 Summary and outlook 187
A Process for parsing, classifying, and storing e- mails 197
B Locations seeded with addresses that attracted most spam 200
References 203
Index 214

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.8.2007
• Zusatzinfo: XX, 209 p. 50 illus.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Netzwerke ► Sicherheit / Firewall
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Schlagworte: Deployment • Design • Development • Email • E-Mail • Hoax • Inernet • Internet • Malware • organization • Phishing • security • Spam • verification
• ISBN-10: 3-540-71750-1 / 3540717501
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-71750-8 / 9783540717508