Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Mail Bomb




e-mail bomb is a form of net abuse consisting of sending huge volumes of e-mail to an address in an attempt to overflow the mailbox or overwhelm the server where the email address is hosted in a denial of service attack.




There are two types are there,




1)  Mass mailing


2) list linking




MASS  MAILING :


Mass mailing consists of sending numerous duplicate mails to the same email address.


LIST LINKING :


List linking means signing a particular email address up to several email list subscriptions. The victim then has to unsubscribe from these unwanted services manually.








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