Title
Novel Mechanism to Defend DDoS Attacks Caused by Spam
Abstract
Corporate mail services are designed to perform better than public mail services. Fast mail delivery, large size file transfer as an attachments, high level spam and virus protection, commercial advertisement free environment are some of the advantages worth to mention. But these mail services are frequent target of hackers and spammers. Distributed Denial of service attacks are becoming more common and sophisticated. The researchers have proposed various solutions to the DDOS attacks. Can we stop these kinds of attacks with available technology? These days the DDoS attack through spam has increased and disturbed the mail services of various organizations. Spam penetrates through all the filters to establish DDoS attacks, which causes serious problems to users and the data. In this paper we propose a novel approach to defend DDoS attack caused by spam mails. This approach is a combination of fine tuning of source filters, content filters, strictly implementing mail policies,educating user, network monitoring and logical solutions to the ongoing attack. We have conducted several experiments in corporate mail services; the results show that this approach is highly effective to prevent DDoS attack caused by spam. The novel defense mechanism reduced 60% of the incoming spam traffic and repelled many DDoS attacks caused by spam.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
ddos attack,secure computation,defense mechanism,distributed denial of service,network monitoring
Field
DocType
Volume
Denial-of-service attack,Computer security,Computer science,Trinoo,Hacker,File transfer,Network monitoring,Application layer DDoS attack
Journal
abs/1012.0610
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
IJSA Vol 1, No 2,July 2007
2
0.42
References 
Authors
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dhinaharan Nagamalai110513.55
Cynthia Dhinakaran2212.64
Jae-Kwang Lee37915.93