SPAM its more than pork

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SPAM(its more than pork)

• Presented by
• Dennis Naiberg
• City of Phoenix
• [phone]

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Overview

• The Threats
• The Challenges
• Fighting Back!
• Tips Tricks

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The Threats

• gt60 of Internet e-mail is unsolicited
• Cost U.S. corporations 8.9 billion in 2002
• E-mail as a viable business tool is being
  threatened
• Viruses and SPAM are merging

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The Challenges

• 250,000 new SPAM attacks launched daily
• Predicted to increase exponentially
• Spammers quickly develop filter countermeasures
• SPAM filters grab good with bad (false positives)

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Anatomy of a SPAM Message
Message Header Altered
Message Header Altered
Misleading
Embedded HTML Tags Flt! HaHa ?ree
Web Bug
Hash Busting
Graphic
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Fighting Back!

• Anti-SPAM legislation
• Deploy a state-of-the-art anti-SPAM scanner at
  the edge of your network
• User education

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Tips Tricks

• Protect your e-mail address
• Limit where your e-mail address is displayed in
  public
• Don't unsubscribe from a spammer's list
• Dont respond to SPAM e-mails
• Check the privacy policy when submitting an
  e-mail address to a web site

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Tips Tricks (cont)

• Opt-out when registering on web sites
• Use fake addresses
• Delete the e-mail address in your browser
• Set your web browser security level to at least
  medium for the Internet zone
• Never forward chain letters

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Summary

• The Threats
• The Challenges
• Fighting Back!
• Tips Tricks

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Questions?