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RE: Mail Honeypot Thesis
From: "Ian Bradshaw" <ian () ianbradshaw net>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:18:15 +0100
I would have thought that botnets are a much greater problem than an open relay, which is just a couple of pcs / servers and can easily be knocked offline by an ISP etc. Also, be careful where you run your relay ... whatever ISP your using will be none too happy at being blacklisted; especially since they are trying to provide a commercial service rather than be someone's toy. It's worth noting that sending SPAM is probably not legal in your country legal and definitely not moral, and your proposing to send a load. I would have thought there is enough SPAM data in the public domain ... http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ / http://www.projecthoneypot.org/statistics.php ... provide a lot for example, and if you drop them a nice mail and explain what you're doing etc, you may find a handy contact and them willing to give you more information. Much better than creating yet another SPAM source and feeling the wrath of your ISP / College / Uni / Other sys admins imho. I. -----Original Message----- From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of dotcompex Sent: 22 April 2009 14:55 To: honeypots () securityfocus com Subject: Mail Honeypot Thesis I'm doing mail honeypot project for my thesis. Having a little bit problem in writing good report. I hope u all can comment it so I can edit before submit it. For the start, I attach my abstract. Electronic mail or in short can be called email is an important communication method since internet were propagated in the early 1980s. People have change their way of communication since the used of email arising. However the efficacy of email is being endangered by spam problems when the Internet was opened up to the public. As defined by Spamhaus Project, spam applied to Unsolicited Bulk Email. Unsolicited means that the recipient has not approved for the message to be sent. Bulk means that the message is sent in large quantities and indistinguishable content. Mail servers that run Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service which are open relay are exposed to be abused by spam. An open relay mail server will relay any messages through it. This project will help to determine the spam source of origin and their contents. Methodology used in this project is experimental approach. This project will be run on Qmail mail server which is an open relay and tcpdump for data capturing. The open relay mail server will be act as mail honeypot to attract spammers. Hopefully this project can benefit others by contributing spam source of origin to be inserted in spam block list. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Mail-Honeypot-Thesis-tp23175462p23175462.html Sent from the Honeypots mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Current thread:
- Mail Honeypot Thesis dotcompex (Apr 22)
- RE: Mail Honeypot Thesis Jesper Jurcenoks (Apr 22)
- RE: Mail Honeypot Thesis Ian Bradshaw (Apr 22)