Spammer and hacker, two old friends
Spammers are always looking for new ways to bypass filters and spread spam content. Currently, spammers have not only improved their spam methods but have also moved towards exploiting software security vulnerabilities in order to spread their spam content. Spammers use weaknesses inside web applica...
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2009
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| author | Hayati, Pedram Potdar, Vidyasagar |
| author2 | Okyay Kaynak |
| author_facet | Okyay Kaynak Hayati, Pedram Potdar, Vidyasagar |
| author_sort | Hayati, Pedram |
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| description | Spammers are always looking for new ways to bypass filters and spread spam content. Currently, spammers have not only improved their spam methods but have also moved towards exploiting software security vulnerabilities in order to spread their spam content. Spammers use weaknesses inside web applications to inject their spam content into legitimate websites, redirect users to their own campaign, misuse web users resources, and hide their footprints. In this paper, we investigate security vulnerabilities that are exploited by spammers. We explain these security vulnerabilities, list their importance and provide a scenario of how spammers can exploit them. Additionally, we discuss two possible solutions to counter problems by patching and secure software development. The result of our work highlights importance of concerning security best-practices in developing secure software which lack of that would result to demotion of website popularity, blacklisting of website and lose of users' trust. |
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| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-432962022-12-09T07:12:34Z Spammer and hacker, two old friends Hayati, Pedram Potdar, Vidyasagar Okyay Kaynak Mukesh Mohania Spammers are always looking for new ways to bypass filters and spread spam content. Currently, spammers have not only improved their spam methods but have also moved towards exploiting software security vulnerabilities in order to spread their spam content. Spammers use weaknesses inside web applications to inject their spam content into legitimate websites, redirect users to their own campaign, misuse web users resources, and hide their footprints. In this paper, we investigate security vulnerabilities that are exploited by spammers. We explain these security vulnerabilities, list their importance and provide a scenario of how spammers can exploit them. Additionally, we discuss two possible solutions to counter problems by patching and secure software development. The result of our work highlights importance of concerning security best-practices in developing secure software which lack of that would result to demotion of website popularity, blacklisting of website and lose of users' trust. 2009 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43296 IEEE fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Hayati, Pedram Potdar, Vidyasagar Spammer and hacker, two old friends |
| title | Spammer and hacker, two old friends |
| title_full | Spammer and hacker, two old friends |
| title_fullStr | Spammer and hacker, two old friends |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spammer and hacker, two old friends |
| title_short | Spammer and hacker, two old friends |
| title_sort | spammer and hacker, two old friends |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43296 |