DSLReports Study: 8 Hours 'til the Spam Hits

Masem writes: "In a rather interesting study at DSLReports, it was observed that email addresses published on a web site recieved spam within 8 hours of being posted, showing how aggressive the harvesters are working. In particular, a special link was set up on the main page that by following the link, the site generated an email address that was trackable to the IP that called the link, and not published anywhere else at any time. In the specific case, in only 8 hours after the email address was created, it had recieved spam; since that time about 9 months ago, it's gotten around 100 pieces. Given the time and source of most of the emails, the authors believe that they've simply got someone at one end of a home broadband pipeline using open relay mail servers, and most likely being paid to redistribute spam on the email addresses they harvest."

Comments

2002 WAREZ LIST COMING SOON!

[PingXao]

Let the me-too's begin...

Oh those wacky AOL'ers who venture forth onto Usenet! At least Web-TV'ers can't really download anything useful.

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