Ch. 13 Flashcards
CAN-SPAM’s main requirements for senders
- Do not use false or misleading header information
- Do not use deceptive subject lines
- The commercial email must be identified as an ad
- The email must have your valid physical postal address
- The email must contain necessary information regarding how to stop receiving emails from the sender in future
- Honor the opt-out request of the recipients within 10 business days
- Both the company whose product is promoted in the message and the emailer hired on contract to send messages must comply with the law
CAN-SPAM Act Violations
- Accessing someone else’s computer to send spam mails without permission
- Using false information to register for multiple email accounts or domain names
- Relaying or retransmitting multiple spam messages through a computer to mislead others, about the origin of the message
- Harvesting email addresses or generating them through a dictionary attack (the practice of sending e-mails to addresses made up of random letters and numbers in the hope of reaching valid ones)
- Taking advantage of open relays or open proxies without permission
What is the first step an investigator should take to carry out the on-site examination of an email server?
Obtain a search warrant application in the appropriate language.
What is the first thing to do once the sender’s email address has been identified during an email investigation?
Check whether it is valid.
Where can an investigator find information on the sender and the recipient of an email and on the path taken by an email while in transit?
In the email header
Which RFC defines the internet email message format?
RFC 5322
What is an internet protocol designed for transmitting emails to a valid email address?
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Where do email archives store received and sent emails?
On the system hard drive
