The Spam game is always going to be a game of cat and mouse or whackamole, take your pick. As we all know the current recommended solutions people use catch a lot of the spam but yes stuff does get through, that is where the user awareness training really needs to kick into place and have people report it so it can be addressed and dealt with. Spam filters will only get you so far and blacklisting after a while can become problematic, depending on business size, dynamics and politics.
Although I did like the article in which a fridge was apart of a spam campaign because they ended up owning the system that was connected to the internet. Poorly secured just like the Smart TV's they tell you to hook up to your network and the internet, they are just as bad if not worse. Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, CISA, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Work:401-255-2497 This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are reading this message, but are not the intended recipient, nor an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from copying, printing, forwarding or otherwise disseminating this communication. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to the message. Then, delete the message from your computer. Thank you. [Description: Description: Lifespan] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2014 10:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Welcome to the Internet of Things (IoT) The author is saying it's a largely a solved problem because filtering largely works. Not because there's no spam being sent. And because filtering mostly works, it doesn't really matter to end users that there are some additional hosts on the 'net that can now send additional email. To be fair, I'm not sure I entirely agree with the last statement - black listing will become a bit more difficult if these devices are used for limited, very targeted spear-type attacks. Cheers Ken From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Brummet Sent: Sunday, 19 January 2014 11:44 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Welcome to the Internet of Things (IoT) I would have to agree, you're just lucky... The amount of spam my mail server is blocking on a daily basis - I can send you the logs - is truly amazing, and my end users still complain when they get 2 or 3 a day! I receive notifications when zip files are being rejected - I get at least 10 of those a day... and coming from FedEx, UPS and Intuiut (fake addresses), I need to be careful what I blacklist... "Spam is a largely solved problem in email" - That guy needs to be connected to an unfiltered internet connection... Michael -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 16:08:40 -0800 Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Welcome to the Internet of Things (IoT) I guess you're just lucky. I regularly see 5-10 pieces a day at each account, including work, public and private - either in my inbox or caught in quarantine, it's about a 50-50 mix. Kurt On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Why isn't it true? How much is "too much spam"? > > From my perspective, I guess that most people in the world get little or no > spam, despite 99+% of all mail being sent on the internet being spam. I don't > recall receiving a single piece of spam in the past 10 years at my work > accounts, and even at home, I seem to be getting a few pieces a day/max. > > For my Outlook.com and Gmail.com accounts, I'd say one piece a month would be > the norm. > > Whilst you might not "consider that solved", I don't see it as a big issue. > Certainly not one where you need to be taking hallucinogens to agree with the > statement. > > Cheers > Ken > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Sunday, 19 January 2014 9:59 AM > To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Welcome to the Internet of Things (IoT) > > Because it isn't true. We have a Barracuda 4xx series appliance, and use > several RBLs, and we still get far too much spam, much of it phishing. Also, > as noted by another poster, most email flowing through the world is still > spam. > > I'm sure that there are better solutions than the Barracuda, but none of them > are anywhere near perfect. Actually, when I had Maia Mailguard running, I > found it superior to the Barracuda, but it still wasn't extremely good. > > Kurt > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Ken Schaefer > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Why do you disagree with the statement? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff >> Sent: Saturday, 18 January 2014 3:55 AM >> To: Kurt Buff >> Subject: [NTSysADM] Welcome to the Internet of Things (IoT) >> >> "spam is a largely solved problem in email" - I want some of the drugs the >> author is taking. >> >> Kurt >> >> http://qz.com/167817/someones-refrigerator-just-took-part-in-a-malicio >> us-cyberattack/ >> >> > >
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