traffic on the internet unsolicited
Traversing Firewalls and NATs With Voice and Video Over IP
White Paper Firewalls block IP voice and video traffic by placing a barrier to any unsolicited, incoming communications. NATs block IP communications traffic because the IP voice and video devices behind the NAT have private IP addresses that are not routable... [03 Jun 2008]
Email Traffic: A Quantitative Snapshot
White Paper With unsolicited email costing businesses millions in wasted employee resources and productivity, and acting as the carrier for a host of potential security woes, spam and blended email threats are among the biggest problems facing enterprises today. [19 Feb 2008]
The Teredo Protocol: Tunneling Past Network Security and Other Security Implications
White Paper Primary concerns include bypassing security controls, reducing defense in depth, and allowing unsolicited traffic. However, by tunneling IPv6 traffic over IPv4 UDP through the NAT and directly to the end node, Teredo raises some security concerns. [15 Dec 2006]
Spammer claims scalp in antispam cyber war
News Almost as old as the internet, unsolicited email continues to swamp email inboxes and to clog servers, even as law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies have tried to stop the practice. A prominent crusader against unsolicited email ads... [18 May 2006]
Australia makes crucial step in war on spam
News Australia, already regarded as the world's champion of anti-spam law, has taken the latest step in outlawing unsolicited bulk email with the introduction of a Code of Practice which, among other measures, will force ISPs to be more proactive in... [29 Mar 2006]
New Networking Features in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
White Paper Windows Firewall is a stateful firewall that drops unsolicited incoming traffic that does not correspond to either traffic sent in response to a request of the computer (solicited traffic) or unsolicited traffic that has been specified as allowed... [08 Sep 2005]
Spam: An Overview of Issues Concerning Commercial Electronic Mail
White Paper Spam, also called unsolicited commercial email (UCE) or "junk email," aggravates many computer users. Not only can spam be a nuisance, but its cost may be passed on to consumers through higher charges from Internet service providers who must... [30 Aug 2005]
Advanced Configuration of Internet Connection Firewall in Windows XP Embedded With Service Pack 1 Images
White Paper If the appropriate port mappings are not configured and enabled for each service, ICF drops the unsolicited network traffic. This paper discusses how to configure and enable ports to allow services running on the device to receive unsolicited... [09 Aug 2005]
Virus hijacks open source servers
News SANS is still researching the worm, but has advised administrators not to expose any MySQL servers to unsolicited connections and to block port 3306. When the programme is run from a remote IRC server, it randomly reassigns ports and starts a... [28 Jan 2005]
Firefox, up, up and away...
News Now, with the unsolicited help of an Adobe Illustrator engineer, the group has surmounted those problems and submitted the ad to the Times for what volunteers expect will be a pre-Christmas run date. Firefox's "usage share" climbed from three per... [15 Dec 2004]
Spam-happy shoppers love stolen software
News Among the most popular items being sold via unsolicited email is illegal software - in many cases adding to the number of laws being broken by the sellers. In addition to profiting from selling goods and services and driving click through ad... [10 Dec 2004]
Virus warning: Playboy bunny, not so funny
News Antivirus firms Panda, Sophos and Symantec have all been blacklisted by the worm, along with words such as 'abuse', 'privacy' and 'spam' which, if appearing an email address may be an indication of an address used to report unsolicited or... [10 Dec 2004]
Spammer's back with spyware
Comment Wallace - once dubbed 'Spamford' by a net community desperate to cut off the flow of unsolicited email coming from his company's servers - has been operating new advertising ventures for several years. [12 Oct 2004]
Spam crackdown signs up 15 countries
News Those conspicuous by their absence include, most notably, China and Russia who also play a huge part in generating and sending unsolicited email - particularly China, where many spammers use servers based in Beijing. [12 Oct 2004]
Spam victims long for the 'bad old days'
News Then last summer the level of spam passed the important watershed of the 50 per cent mark - meaning more email traffic was unsolicited than not. The face of spam and the nature of unsolicited email is still evolving as the overall amount in... [14 Jul 2004]
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