Security – Network Security Threats and Solutions – You May Be Surprised
Personally, I have never, ever sent out any type of advertising email of any sort out of respect for others privacy. I figure if they want to find me and my sites, they can do that on search engines and directories or from the byline on the articles I write. But I have been plagued over the years by spam and spammers because of the past advertising I’ve placed on the web. That’s a no brainer for everyone that has a presence on the web. There are quite a few ways to fight it, but oft times it seems like a loosing battle.
From outside the company, threats are extremely dangerous. From viral attacks, planting Trojans and interception of valuable data, the attacks can come from numerous sources and at anytime. With much business done over the Internet access to almost any network from anywhere can invite attackers and data thieves.
If you think that your company has nothing valuable to steal or sabotage, think again. Every company has employee’s Social Security numbers and many that deal with customers have credit cards on file.
You may think too that no one would care about breaking into your network from the outside or understand who would want to transmit a nasty virus. One thing is for sure, if the network is left open to being a target, someone will find a reason.
They also usually say that when sending the money back to them that you “wire” it to them.
Now if you do all this – deposit the sum of money, smile when you see the large sum of money in your account, and gladly wire them their small ‘fee’, you’ll soon be crying because within a day or two of all this your check will bounce. This will leave you with no money (from your windfall) and will leave you stuck losing the money you wired them, since you can’t get this money back. (why do you think they said ‘wire’ them the money?)
The cure can come in several forms. The best but most inconvenient for me is to require their registration be approved by me before they can post. This however takes up quite a bit of time on my part. The second best is to keep an eye on your forums and when they register, ban their back sides. They usually are easy to spot because of the user names they use like Amequelet, PraigeZoori, or Detoxon. Banning on my SMF message board usually take a second or two and they have been stopped in their tracks because of IP blocking. After a while most spammer groups will give up on their efforts.
If your message board has a calendar, you might better set the permissions to admin only for posting to it. Spammers love calendars also. On my Christian fellowship board I found over 600 posts with URL and key words that were eating bandwidth like candy.
Spam method number three and it’s cure:
Do you have an article directory? Spammers love this method too. But not in the submitting of articles. No, actually what they do is make multiple drafts of a particular article, stuff them with key words and url’s, then leave them in draft form where they are actually picked up by search engines. Of my three article directories, my general directory was plagued by this. When I figured out what they were doing, there was over 5,000 drafts in my database. The solution I’ve found is to disable drafts on your directory
Resource Author Francisco Rodriguez H.
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