Outline for November 29, 2005

Reading: "Spam Scams," OnGuard Online (Sep. 2005).

  1. Safety on the Web: Email
    1. Attachments, worms, and viruses
    2. Spam
      1. Joe jobs
      2. Relaying through third parties
      3. Zombies
    3. Anti-spam technologies
      1. Authentication and authorization services
      2. Reputation services
      3. Challenge-response
      4. Port blocking and rate limiting
      5. Preventing relaying
      6. Spam filtering
      7. Image blocking
    4. Phishing
  2. Assurance
    1. Trustworthy entities
    2. Security assurance
    3. Trusted system
    4. Why assurance is needed
    5. Requirements
    6. Assurance and software life cycle


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