PowerPoint Template

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BCM
E-Business Technologies
SPAM
Rafael Quiroz Vázquez Professor Eduard Heindl
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Agenda

• Definition
• History
• How does spam work?
• Categories
• Laws
• Where is spam?
• Battle against spam
• Spam every day

Rafael Quiroz Vázquez
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Definition

• Spam is the abuse of sending unauthorized and
  inappropriate bulk messages
• It is sent to a lot of people
• It is normally advertisement or promotional
• It is not requested by the addresser.

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History

• The name comes from USA (30s).
• It was the name of a can which contains meat.
• British Band popularized the term spam.
• The spam became popular in the 90s.
• Nowadays, spam continues increasing.

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How does spam work

• Spammers need the e-mail addresses
• There are several ways to get the addresses
• They have tools that allow them create virus and
  control the computers of the web-users.
• They are hired by big companies to make
  advertisements of their products

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Phising and scam

• Phising is type of deception designed to steal
  your valuable personal data
• 1.- Fake web site that accepts donations for
  charity.
• 2.- Social network site of the web-user
• 3.- Fake e-mail message of the co-workers or
  web-user.
• These kind of spam comes from fake reliable
  web-sites for the web-user, they are called scam.

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Categories
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Categories

• Example

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Laws
Governments should organize and decide which is
the best way to control the flow of the
iformation through the net. Every government
stablish its own rules, the problem is that once
a spam is created in any part of the world it can
be trasmited to any computer in another
country. Therefore the governments should make
an agreement to improvise the performance
against the spam.
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Laws
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Where is spam?

• E-mail
• Forums
• Blog
• Social networks
• Mobile
• Internet Relay Chat

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Battle against spam

• Four groups
• End-user technique
• Automated techniques for e-mail administrator
• Filtering techniques
• Automated techniques for e-mail senders

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Spam every day
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rg/wiki/Spam_(electronic) Obligaciones de
información sobre la seguridad. (2008) Retrieved
June 21, 2009 from http//www.lssi.es/Secciones/Co
ntenidos/Obligaciones/contprin2e.htm Harris
David. (2003). Spam, the curse of the new
millennium an overview and white paper. The
state of spam (n. d.) Retrieved June 28, 2009
from http//www.symantec.com/avcenter/reference/Sy
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definition of spam (n.d.). Retrieved June 12,
2009 from http//www.spamhaus.org/definition.html
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apter153350533 Recognize phishing scams and
fraudulent e-mail (n. d.) Retrieved June 14, 2009
from http//www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/phi
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from http//www.microsoft.com/spain/empresas/aseso
ria/scam.mspx
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Thank you