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Please elaborate a little on dark traffic.

Jan 22nd, 2008 22:50
dman, Prabhash Bhattnagar, http://sturly.com

Dark traffic is nothing but invalid SMTP traffic that comes through the 
internet. Invalid traffic comprises of undeliverable messages and other 
communications. Because these messages cannot be delivered to a valid e-
mail user, they are useless for the company. Some examples of such 
traffic include directory harvest attacks (DHA), Denial of Service 
attacks (DoS), messages to non existent recipient addresses, or 
messages that should not be accepted by the enterprise network, or 
malformed SMTP packets.
Prabhash Bhattanagar