Computer wetenschappers van de California University te San Diego denken bewijs gevonden te hebben dat spammers (en andere junk e-mail distributeurs) aan de ontvangende kant meer kwetsbaar zijn dan aan de verzendende kant. Het onderzoek wordt op de USENIX Security 2007 conferentie gepresenteerd.
“A given spam campaign may use thousands of mail relay agents to deliver its millions of messages, but it may use only a single server to handle requests from recipients who respond. A single takedown of a scam server — or a spammer redirect — can curtail the earning potential of an entire spam campaign,” the report says.
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“Our findings suggest that the current scam infrastructure is particularly vulnerable to common blocking techniques, such as blacklisting,” says Geoff Voelker, a computer science and engineering professor at the UCSD Jacobs School.
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