Implementing honeypots to fight spammers / Mohd Saiful Abd Talib

Spam can be considered as unwanted email. Those emails usually contain advertisements that can found in postal mailboxes. Although spam generally not considered as real cyber attack, it may be difficult to differentiate between viruscontaminated emails. Moreover, spammers slow the servers that re...

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Main Author: Abd Talib, Mohd Saiful
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2005
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/1683/1/TD_MOHD%20SAIFUL%20ABD%20TALIB%20CS%2005_5%20P01.pdf
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spelling my-uitm-ir.16832019-07-22T02:16:11Z Implementing honeypots to fight spammers / Mohd Saiful Abd Talib 2005 Abd Talib, Mohd Saiful Electronic Computers. Computer Science Spam can be considered as unwanted email. Those emails usually contain advertisements that can found in postal mailboxes. Although spam generally not considered as real cyber attack, it may be difficult to differentiate between viruscontaminated emails. Moreover, spammers slow the servers that receiving legitimate emails and may cause availability problems. Typical solutions against this problem may be to filter emails received by using content analysis or blacklists. Hence this project discusses the usefulness of using homemade honeypots to fight spammers. Sendmail is used in this project as a decoy to fool spammers. This paper will explain how typical spammers work, as well as how honeypots could be used to detect spammers, slow spammers, and stop spammers from such activities. 2005 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/1683/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/1683/1/TD_MOHD%20SAIFUL%20ABD%20TALIB%20CS%2005_5%20P01.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language English
topic Electronic Computers
Computer Science
spellingShingle Electronic Computers
Computer Science
Abd Talib, Mohd Saiful
Implementing honeypots to fight spammers / Mohd Saiful Abd Talib
description Spam can be considered as unwanted email. Those emails usually contain advertisements that can found in postal mailboxes. Although spam generally not considered as real cyber attack, it may be difficult to differentiate between viruscontaminated emails. Moreover, spammers slow the servers that receiving legitimate emails and may cause availability problems. Typical solutions against this problem may be to filter emails received by using content analysis or blacklists. Hence this project discusses the usefulness of using homemade honeypots to fight spammers. Sendmail is used in this project as a decoy to fool spammers. This paper will explain how typical spammers work, as well as how honeypots could be used to detect spammers, slow spammers, and stop spammers from such activities.
format Thesis
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author Abd Talib, Mohd Saiful
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title Implementing honeypots to fight spammers / Mohd Saiful Abd Talib
title_short Implementing honeypots to fight spammers / Mohd Saiful Abd Talib
title_full Implementing honeypots to fight spammers / Mohd Saiful Abd Talib
title_fullStr Implementing honeypots to fight spammers / Mohd Saiful Abd Talib
title_full_unstemmed Implementing honeypots to fight spammers / Mohd Saiful Abd Talib
title_sort implementing honeypots to fight spammers / mohd saiful abd talib
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
granting_department Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
publishDate 2005
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/1683/1/TD_MOHD%20SAIFUL%20ABD%20TALIB%20CS%2005_5%20P01.pdf
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