Saturday, February 7, 2009

A review on a post on Internet Security from My E-Commerce blog




After had a review on a post on Internet Security from My E-Commerce blog - New Spamming Tactics, I found that the post only disclose three spamming tactics which are PDF Spam, Piggyback Spam and Greeting Card Spam.

Actually, there are not only three tactics in realistic. For examples, Medication Spam, Replica Item Spam, Software Spam, Bank Phishing, Images Spam and others.



Spamming
Spam is defined as unsolicited bulk messages sent through the electronic messaging systems. However, how the senders get the email address? They can get it through the name card, website and search engine. There become the easier ways for get the contact and send out the junk e-mail.



Types of spam
Among of the forms of spam, e-mail spam is most widely being recognized which known as junk e-mail. Its term also applied to similar abuses in other media, there are included instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, Online classified ads spam and file sharing network spam.


Spamming Tactics
The spamming tactics is recognized by the spammers who create electronic spam in order to outsmart the anti-spam software. The anti spam software is used and helps to reduce the influx of the unsolicited e-mails.


From the post, the new tactics are PDF Spam, Piggyback Spam and Greeting Card Spam. As a conclusion from related spams, if realize the e-mails are sent by an unknown person or suspended infected by viruses, the best solution is choosing delete it immediately and not encouraged to open it. Sometimes, when you click links, it may actually lead to a downloaded file which in turn may install malware or spyware.



Recommendations

Nowadays with the modern of full of the IT, a lot of spamming tactics be created and caused the users need to delete spam mails everytime when login to mailbox and check mails. However, there will have its own solution such as using anti spam software.

I want to highligh and recommend a company that has provide a very good of antispam solution for the hosting client which is TCPAccess Dot Com.

TCPAccess Dot Com is proudly to announce new TCPAccess Premium Mail Protection solution in handle the problem of spam mails. The solution above is monitor by our staff daily and round the clock to detect latest spam mail. By multi-level filtering method, help clients to reduce the number of spam mail received by 98%
and the staffs
showed very high performance in their duties.


News -Spam Volumes Drop by Two-Thirds After Firm Goes Offline

According to the CBL-observed Effects of the McColo Outage, the Internet hosting company McColo Corporation was disconnected (by its Internet access providers) from the Internet on November 11 at approximately 21:30 hours GMT. Many people working in anti-spam/malware/phish were well aware of the issues being tracked back to McColo. They knew the magnitude of these issues, and could make reasonably sound theoretical predictions of what would happen if McColo was disconnected.

The volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide plummeted after a Web hosting firm identified by the computer security community as a major host of organizations engaged in spam activity was taken offline. In accord with the experts said, the precipitous drop-off in spam comes from Internet providers unplugging McColo Corporation, a hosting provider in Northern California that was the home base for machines responsible for coordinating the sending of roughly 75 percent of all spam each day.
Related links:
  1. http://cbl.abuseat.org/mccolo.html
  2. http://www.tcpaccess.com/index.php?p=antispam
  3. http://ecommerze.blogspot.com/search/label/Internet%20Security
  4. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/spam_volumes_drop_by_23_after.html

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