Problematika emailové komunikace

This work describes actual problems regarding to email communication. It shows how emails technically work and on these bases describes today's possibilities of email authentication. Next to it, the paper focuses on the biggest problems connected to emails - spamming and phishing. As far as spam is concerned, this work is dealing with methods of detection and filtering spam.  Phishing is demonstratively shown on virtual case of phish-attack and attention is paid to anti-phishing tools as well. Other key-part of this work is low view of email problematic. This part covers judgement and eventual punishment of spamming and phishing in accordance to Czech, European Union and other countries' legislation. The phishing, considered to be the most serious problem concerning to emails, is demonstrated by the virtual court case which shows how related organs works and what are the problems about it. Some precedential cases are discussed there as well. The last part of this work describes the implementation of simple program which uses database in the Phishtank server to analyse phishing emails.

phishing, email, spam, OPT-IN model, OPT-OUT model