Anti-Spam Measures (eBook)

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