Electronic Mail Bombs

There are many e-mail bombing tools and techniques freely available to the public. There are also myriad reasons for cyber-citizens to send e-mail bombs. For example, according to a recent survey [2], five percent of the recipients of Internet junk mail retaliate by sending mail bombs and executing other denial-of-service attacks.

In this section we review many of the techniques exploited and used for creating powerful e-mail bombs on the Internet. These techniques include chain bombs, error message bombs, covert distribution and mail exploder exploitation. There are other techniques as well. This section covers a large subset of these e-mail bombing techniques.