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21 commentsThursday, April 10, 2008

11-Year-Old Boy Figures Out Network Security

Gateway, not network, the place to fight threats

21 Comments

By Internet Marketing Indonesia (WPN reader) - Fri, 11/07/2008 - 22:42

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By lowongan kerja 2009 (WPN reader) - Sun, 11/02/2008 - 05:50

thanks for its article..

thanks for its article.. very helpful.. :)

By Guest (WPN reader) - Mon, 04/14/2008 - 03:44

Since most spammers use a botnet and proxies so send spam and email spoofing there is not much point in returning the mail as it will flood email boxes of innocent parties. Email spoofing is where the senders email is not where the email originates from. Spammers often infect unsuspecting users PCs with a virus and then route their spam through these PCs. IP blocking can also have disastrous consequences if an ISP blocks the wrong IP address. For instance in blocking eBay notifications or Bebo notifications. Spammers have disposable IP addresses and disposable email addresses (or use addresses that don't belong to them) so they don't care much if they get blocked.

By MGM (WPN reader) - Sun, 04/13/2008 - 12:29

Some spam is not spam

Granted 9/10, BULK mails are spam...Some email programs.Have a Blacklist. If you actually use a mail service, instead of Yahoo, or Gmail you will find the blacklist option next to your delete, once you blacklist someones address, there mail gets sent to the trash...QUIT using FREE EMAIL. I use yahooo to catch most spammers, its my spam account.

By jawn_tech (WPN reader) - Sun, 04/13/2008 - 11:51

Good Strategy.

Hackers come in all ages.

Why shouldn't your staff?

Fight fire with fire.

By William (WPN reader) - Sun, 04/13/2008 - 10:58

Regarding Inernet Security

The answer to all internet security issues on the internet is NOT scanning and filtering messaging. The very simple solution is to require all isp's on the whole internet to check the ip address of their customer/ sender of any data, and confirm that it is indeed their ip address. If any computer/ server tried to send data with a false ip or no ip, the isp could simply bounce it back. The authorities could then spend their time rounding up the spammers, phishers, and other pranksters by their ip address.

PROBLEM SOLVED!

No! Such a software program at the isp would not be a resource hog, and it would be less intrusive, since no email message scanning and filtering would take place.

Of course, this would take away the anonymous nature of the internet, and the only solution to this problem would be to create an additional secure internet. People who wished to remain anonymous could live on the wild west internet, and the sane people could live on the secure internet.

NO! OF COURSE THEY WON'T DO THIS, BUT IT IS THE SOLUTION!

This would put virtually all security people out of business. :)

By HJ (WPN reader) - Sun, 04/13/2008 - 12:35

Next generation Internet

Maybe the next generation Internet will require ID's, and those that want to remain anonymous, can still use this one?

By dkirk (WPN reader) - Sun, 04/13/2008 - 07:11

Refreshing

It is refreshing to find articles such as this. It is nice to find an 11 year old that is helping instead of hurting the net. For the person that can't spell a nice little program that sits in the task bar and tells you when you misspell is at http://www.numerit.com/ it is called tiny spell and does wonders for those that could not get by the 4th grade spelling class.

By Guest (WPN reader) - Fri, 04/11/2008 - 00:18

It has some truth to the

It has some truth to the story though.

By santa rosa personal injury (WPN reader) - Thu, 04/10/2008 - 14:31

Made me snicker

It has some truth to the story though. My niece is 11 and is learning fractions at school and uses the computer so much she talks tech jargon. She knows how to change her password, and use hints too! Kids are getting smarter and smarter.

Steve Teal

By Guest (WPN reader) - Thu, 04/10/2008 - 09:48

Why don't ISP's do this

I agree with some of the negative comments partially as some links to usefull sites would have been good, however what do you want - war and peace?

Why don't ISP's stop more of this spam and junk mail. It seems to me that it does not matter how many spam filters on a hosted server etc you use as soon as you have a web site you spend 30 minutes a day clearing out the junk of replica watches and drugs. Surely these email marketing techniques don't really work as everyone just deletes them anyway. As part of any hosted package surely it is in the interest of the hosting company to block anything with partucular titles and nonesensical email adresses such as gwwuuewiuh@uhwoow which these people change every time spam etc is sent out so that you can't block particular email addresses. Overall woud it not be simpler to block any email from a domain to your hosted server that has been reported as spam?

By Guest (WPN reader) - Sun, 04/13/2008 - 07:59

Blocking junk mail at the ISP..

Blocking junk mail at the ISP would be the equivelent to the US postal service deciding what mail the accept and what mail to decline. One mans junk mail is another man's business mail.

Now, before you jump on me as "a mail spammer" I am a business owner, and I DON'T use email as a marketing method, but I am anti-censorship. I do not want any ISP, government agency, or other entity to tell me what emails I can send and what emails I can't. As a business, my customers, or potential customers should decide if they want to do business with me.

Thanks for the opportunity to comment.

By Guest (WPN reader) - Mon, 04/14/2008 - 03:47

RE:Blocking junk mail at the ISP

"One mans junk mail is another man's business mail."

Only if the business mail you receive is from that business.

I am a small business owner and the amount of junk e-mail that appears to be going out from my domain is scary.

Spammers are using my business domain name to send junk. This leaves me having to try and get off black lists for something some low life scum are doing using my business name!!!!

After having spent countless hours trying to find how to stop spammers using my domain name, the only thing that appears viable is for ISP's to check the "sent from" ip address and see if it matches my domain mail server and if not, stop it there.

You may not be using e-mail marketing with your e-mail address, but I bet the spammers already are!!

Cheers,

Greg

By HJ (WPN reader) - Sun, 04/13/2008 - 12:53

Spam

ISP's should be able to detect emails with incorrect headers and corrupted emails that attempt to get round spam filters and sometimes screw up your email system. Requiring you to log on to your webmail server to delete it, as it won't download.

And you can also install software, plugins or have a separate server that requires anybody that sends you email to confirm the email they send you the first time. While this is inconvenient, if you get a 100 or more spam a day it's handy.

Some ISP's do have a Spam facility available, but it's optional as to whether you enable it or not.

By Guest (WPN reader) - Thu, 04/10/2008 - 09:18

Maybe all of you who need

Maybe all of you who need to know how they did it, could hire the kid.
I'll give you a hint. The best appliance is a Barracuda.

By Just an idea (WPN reader) - Thu, 04/10/2008 - 08:18

I have to agree, making a

I have to agree, making a post to simply have a new post and fresh content is on of my pet peeves.

My biggest problem with this article is that there seems to be no resolution. How are they planning on securing their router, can you provide any links to helpful articles. These are things that could have made the article more useful.

By cheesesliceking (WPN reader) - Thu, 04/10/2008 - 06:32