Stop Spammers By Blocking Their Websites?
I read an interesting study this morning in the Washington Post that said that the weakest part of a spam campaign was the website. Since it doesn’t do the spammers who sell stuff any good to send you spam if you can’t buy their products, if you could block their websites, you could effectively shut them down.
Think about it, what if someone could set up a system where there was a national monitoring facility that could update Domain Name Servers to block certain IP addresses if they saw a spike in spam email pointing to that address. Of course, it would also be a great way to get your competitors websites blocked, so the idea needs a better head than mine to work out the details. LOL
Here is some of the Washington Post article, and you can read the rest of it here:
They [researchers at the University of California, San Diego] concluded that while spammers may use many different servers to send out their e-mail, it’s a different story when it comes to hosting the Web page that sells the watches or male enhancement products featured in the spam.
In fact, 94 percent of the time, the scam could be traced back to a single Web server. “Most scams are hosted on a single IP address, providing a potentially convenient single point for network-based interdiction either via IP blacklisting or network filtering,” the researcher wrote in a paper to be delivered Thursday at the Usenix Security 2007 conference in Boston.
Anyone have anything to add to this?
Anti-Spammer