Tag: smtp
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VB2014 paper: Labelling spam through the analysis of protocol patterns
What do your IP packet sizes say about whether you’re a spammer? Over the next few months, we will be sharing VB2014 conference papers as well as video recordings of the presentations. Today, we have added ‘Labelling spam through the analysis of protocol patterns’ by Bitdefender researchers Andrei Husanu and Alexandru Trifan. Machines sending spam…
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There is a place for unauthenticated key exchange, but don’t tell anyone
Making dragnet surveillance harder justifies using weak form of encryption. Discussions on how to make the Internet more secure have been going on ever since the first two computers were connected. Recently, however, Snowden’s revelations about surveillance on a scale that was hitherto only imagined by the most paranoid have made some of these discussions…
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Outlook spam phishes for SMTP credentials
Login details would give spammers access to legitimate mail servers. A phishing scam has been identified that targets users of Microsoft Outlook and tries to obtain SMTP login credentials. Many internet users send email using their ISP’s mail server which means that, upon setting up their email client, they need to enter the latter’s SMTP…
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From Simple Mail to Hypertext
HTTP and FTP take over from SMTP as common malware spreading methods. A report from F-Secure has highlighted the recent shift in malware spreading methods from email to web-based methods. For many years, malware authors’ preferred method of spreading their wares was to send out masses of emails that contained a piece of malware as…