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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Abd Talib, Mohd Saiful
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2005
Subjects:	Electronic computers. Computer science
Online Access:	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/1683/ http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/1683/1/TD_MOHD%20SAIFUL%20ABD%20TALIB%20CS%2005_5%20P01.pdf

id	uitm-1683
recordtype	eprints
spelling	uitm-16832019-07-22T02:16:11Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/1683/ Implementing honeypots to fight spammers / Mohd Saiful Abd Talib 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 NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/1683/1/TD_MOHD%20SAIFUL%20ABD%20TALIB%20CS%2005_5%20P01.pdf Abd Talib, Mohd Saiful (2005) Implementing honeypots to fight spammers / Mohd Saiful Abd Talib. Degree thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA.
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Local University
institution	Universiti Teknologi MARA
building	UiTM Institutional Repository
collection	Online Access
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
author	Abd Talib, Mohd Saiful
author_facet	Abd Talib, Mohd Saiful
author_sort	Abd Talib, Mohd Saiful
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
publishDate	2005
url	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/1683/ http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/1683/1/TD_MOHD%20SAIFUL%20ABD%20TALIB%20CS%2005_5%20P01.pdf
first_indexed	2023-09-18T22:46:10Z
last_indexed	2023-09-18T22:46:10Z
_version_	1777417238952804352

Implementing honeypots to fight spammers / Mohd Saiful Abd Talib

Similar Items