Comments on: 7 Major Sources of Spam on the Internet http://www.allspammedup.com/2009/07/7-major-sources-of-spam-on-the-internet/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:28:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Paul Cunningham http://www.allspammedup.com/2009/07/7-major-sources-of-spam-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-2744 Paul Cunningham Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:11:16 +0000 http://www.allspammedup.com/?p=1276#comment-2744 Hi Terry, thanks for your comment. That use of webmail for spam only highlights the weaknesses in the CAPTCHAs that are in place to supposedly protect the systems from spam/bot signups. Not to mention weak password recovery systems, which have received some mainstream press coverage in the last 12 months. Compromised email accounts for businesses can also be as simple as weak staff termination processes. As an IT consultant I regularly come across client networks where staff accounts are left active well after the person has left, even for those who left on bad terms. A huge risk for malicious use. Hi Terry, thanks for your comment. That use of webmail for spam only highlights the weaknesses in the CAPTCHAs that are in place to supposedly protect the systems from spam/bot signups. Not to mention weak password recovery systems, which have received some mainstream press coverage in the last 12 months.

Compromised email accounts for businesses can also be as simple as weak staff termination processes. As an IT consultant I regularly come across client networks where staff accounts are left active well after the person has left, even for those who left on bad terms. A huge risk for malicious use.

]]> By: Terry Zink http://www.allspammedup.com/2009/07/7-major-sources-of-spam-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-2728 Terry Zink Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:53:49 +0000 http://www.allspammedup.com/?p=1276#comment-2728 Another source of spam that has become prevalanet over the past year and a half or so is spam from the big mail providers - Hotmail, AOL, Gmail and Yahoo. Bots sign up for those accounts and then use them to spew out spam. Yet another one is compromised email accounts. This falls under Business Premises but maybe as a subcategory - it is not unusual to have educational instutions get actual email accounts compromised and then start sending out spam that way. Another source of spam that has become prevalanet over the past year and a half or so is spam from the big mail providers – Hotmail, AOL, Gmail and Yahoo. Bots sign up for those accounts and then use them to spew out spam.

Yet another one is compromised email accounts. This falls under Business Premises but maybe as a subcategory – it is not unusual to have educational instutions get actual email accounts compromised and then start sending out spam that way.

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