How Spammers Abuse Whois and SMTP Part 1

Spam is probably one of the biggest nuisances of today's world. As soon as we open our mailbox in the morning, we are almost sure to find a couple of spam mails. The extra effort required to remove spam is sometimes painful and time consuming. This 3 part video series tries to demystify how spammers work. We will look at a day in the life of a sammer - the common techniques used to harvest email addresses and send spam.
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1. SPAM

2. Email Harvesting

3. SMTP Basics

4. Domain Tools

Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the founder of an online startup (currently in stealth mode). Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net