SPAM network security cyber crime

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SPAMnetwork security
cyber crime
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Introduction

• Main question
• How spam is effecting Information Security and
  how the World summit is addressing these issues.
• SPAM sending of junk email that gets sent to
  large numbers of Internet users without their
  consent.
• Virus - is a harmful program that hides itself in
  other innocent programs.
• Cyber-Crime Crime that is committed on the
  internet

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Development towards Anti- Spam

• WSIS (International Organizations)
• Global Problem, Laws
• Australia, Republic of Korea and many European
  countries already have such laws
• Government
• Private Organizations Spam blockers

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Background (Global Issue)

• Viral Spam
• Sobig virus, the "Love Bug"
• Wireless
• Palm pilots, mobile phones (top concern),
  invasion of privacy
• Cross Boarders
• Spammers migrate, different laws
• "The more information propagated, the more
  potential there is for a hole in security. -
  Walter Janowski, a research director at Gartner

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Cont

• Governments are talking cross-border agreements
  that ban spamming across countries
• Most Spam originates from several hundred
  mega-spammers in the US and is increasingly sent
  via servers in Asia, or even Latin America to
  evade the law.
• Taking over peoples computers

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Future Work

• Take a look at who Spammer normally target in
  order gain access of computers.
• How they get onto other systems to send spam
• Network Security (how to patch up holes)
• Operating System Security
• Microsoft vs. Apple

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Conclusion

• SPAM is a serious issue and is not going away
  anytime soon. Because society is so immersed in
  technology we have to make sure the information
  we exchange is safe and secure.

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References

• WSIS
• Global SPAM Global Problem
• Declaration of Principles
• Plan of Action
• Websites
• http//www.itsecurity.com/defaultie5.htm
• http//www.diffuse.org/secure.htmlhelp
• http//www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2987558.stm
• http//www.spamfilterreview.com/spam-statistics.ht
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• Articles
• Address to the Second Committee By Shashi Tharoor
• Is Spam overflowing? Just learn to live with it?
  By Michael Zuzel
• Information Insecurity - A survival guide to the
  uncharted territories of cyber-threats and cyber
  security By Eduardo Gelbstein and Ahmad Kamal
• Wham! Bam! That Spam! Communication News