February 2005 e-solutions for a Global Economy Evangelos Moustakas – PhD Researcher Middlesex University London - UK Copyright February 2005 Evangelos.

February 2005

e-solutions for a Global Economy

Evangelos Moustakas – PhD ResearcherMiddlesex University London - UK

Copyright February 2005 Evangelos Moustakas PhD Researcher Middlesex University

• The spam business model• What is spam?• How to control Spam?• Forging an e-mail address• How to ‘read’ an e-mail header • What can YOU do?• How to hack a hotmail account• Going ‘phishing’?• Cases studies of phishing – on-line fraud• On-line privacy• Monitoring in the working place• The mp3 on-line industry & copyright issues• Encryption & Decryption• Q & A

The Agenda

Monty Python Sketch Spam, Spam, Spam

Business OpportunitiesBulk E-mailChain LettersWork from HomeHealth & DietEffortless IncomeFree GoodsInvest OpportunitiesGuaranteed LoansCredit RepairVacation Prizes

Spam at an average enterprise exceeds 50% Sep 04 Spam cost businesses

$10 + B in 2003

62% of US employees say pornographic spam can contribute to a hostile workplace

Employees receive 5000-15000 spam msgs/day (2004)

The Spam Business Model

Spam is profitable: cost to sender is minimal

Global Spam this year: 3 trillion msgs = Cost $107 - $131 bn / $200bn by Dec

A delicious processed meat productLike the song, spam is an endless repetition of worthless text

What is Spam?

Legitimate companies cannot conduct on-line transactions

Forging an email address

Forging an email address

Changing the e-mail header properties

The ‘real’ e-mail sender

Controlling Spam – What can YOU do?

Reducing Spam

• Don’t display your e-mail address in public• Check the privacy policy when you submit your address to a website• Use an anti-spam filter – ISP research

The “Munging” [email protected] e.moustakas @ mdx ac uk

Make e-mail addresses indistinct in the .html source code

The characters can be replaced either by a small image (logo)

“Hexadecimal encoding” ‘[email protected]’ is transformed:<a href="mailto: %65%2e%6d%6f%75%73%74%61%6b%6163%2e%75%6b">contact</a>

Online contract forms

www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html

How to hack easily a hotmail account

Follow the following instructions carefully:

First of all, compose a new messageIn the addressee (to) field, write the service address: [email protected] the subject field, write: ‘Password*fetch*’In the body, write:

1. In the 1st line write your e-mail address2. In the 2nd line write your password3. Leave the 3rd line empty (pass one line)4. In the 4th line write the e-mail address which you want to get its password5. In the 5th line write the e-mail which you want to get the password to (yours)6. Send the message

After few minutes/seconds you will get e-mail message contains the password you asked for!

How to hack easily a hotmail account

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Unsolicited e-mail sent to redirect recipients to fraudulent logon sites to capture personal detail.

Going for Phishing?

Going for Phishing?

On-line Privacy

On-line Privacy

Monitoring in the workplace

The mp3 on-line industry & copyright issues

Encryption and decryption

Q & A

ISPV – ESTGL Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestao de Lamego

e-solutions for a Global Economy

Copyright February 2005 Evangelos Moustakas PhD Researcher Middlesex University

Evangelos Moustakas (BA, BSc., MSc, MPhil)

PhD Researcher-Scholar of Middlesex University (2001-2004)Scholar of the Greek Unit of European Programs (I.K.Y.) (2000-2004)Visiting Scholar University of Illinois in Chicago (Autumn 2004)

URL: http://www.academy.gr/vmoustakasE-mail: [email protected]