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White Papers
Comparing VMware Zimbra with Leading Email and Collaboration Platforms
Aug 2011
Many businesses are looking for alternatives to legacy email solutions, which lack flexibility and strain IT resources. This paper explains how VMware Zimbra® is emerging as the...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
The 10 myths of safe web browsing
Jun 2010
Are you suffering from misconceptions about safe web browsing? You might think you're being safe, but with a newly infected webpage discovered every few seconds, it's next to impossible to stay up...
Provided by Sophos
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Whitepapers
Using MDaemon AntiSpam for Spam Control
Aug 2003
To help stop Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE), also known as spam, modern email servers must have configuration options to prevent unauthorized relaying of email messages. In addition, cost-effective...
Provided by Alt-N Technologies
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White Papers
Botnets: The Dark Side of Cloud Computing
Dec 2011
Botnets are based on similar principles as legitimate clouds, but serve malicious business interests. Find out more about how botnets work and the right steps after having detected infected...
Provided by Astaro
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White Papers
Anti-Spam White Paper
Jun 2003
Unsolicited commercial email, commonly referred to as spam, is growing rapidly and is finding its way to desktops both in the home as well as in the office. The purpose of this paper is to discuss...
Provided by Aladdin Knowledge Systems
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Whitepapers
Good for security, good for business
Apr 2013
Cyber threats continue to increase. Criminals are getting smarter, but when it comes to small businesses they are getting an easy ride. Symantec's 2012 National Small Business Study found that 83%...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Choosing a Vendor: 8 Key Points to Consider When You Need to Outsource
Jun 2009
Even marketing departments at large companies will need to outsource some functions to firms who are more creative and resourceful in specific areas. Most of the time, this is a win-win: you...
Provided by SkillSoft
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Whitepapers
Whitepaper: The Inevitable Extinction of PSTs
Apr 2013
Microsoft® Exchange administrators are responsible for the integrity, security, and availability of an organization's email platform. Some of the most common threats to mailboxes are viruses,...
Provided by Symantec Australia
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White Papers
Calculating The Cost: Email Threats & Financial Risks
Nov 2011
When deciding whether to invest in an email security solution - and which solution to opt for - businesses need to understand the extent of the costs they risk incurring if they have either no or...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Selecting a Microsoft Hosted Exchange Service Provider
Jun 2009
When it comes to the decision to outsource the delivery of your organisation's messaging solution, the task of selecting the most appropriate service provider can be daunting This whitepaper...
Provided by Cobweb Solutions Ltd
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White Papers
Trend Micro Message Archiver
Jun 2009
Easy compliance, e-discovery, and email management. Take a tour today of a simple and secure email archive.
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
ANTI-SPAM SOLUTIONS - JANUARY 2009
Jun 2009
IT decision-makers now have a multitude of email solutions to consider. However, regardless of whether businesses choose email appliances, software or hosted service solutions, there are highly...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
F-Secure Protection Service for Business (PSB)
Mar 2009
This paper is intended for F-Secure partners and their small business customers. It provides an overview of F-Secure Protection Service for Business security service solution. F-Secure Protection...
Provided by F-Secure
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Webcasts
Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall Introduction
Jan 2009
This webcast will give introduction of Barracuda spam & virus firewall.
Provided by Barracuda Networks
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White Papers
Hidden Dangers of Spam
Sep 2011
Most of us know firsthand, how our inboxes can quickly fill up with spam. Enterprising hackers using email to breach the security of the network are becoming more than just a nuisance. Find out...
Provided by Astaro
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Resource Center
Security Bloopers: Five Common Mistakes
Jan 2009
Wondering if you've adequately protected your network can cause sleepless nights. In the rush of your workday, what could you have missed? Sleep better by avoiding the common mistakes listed on...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Resource Center
Phishing: How to Keep Your Business from Biting
Dec 2008
Phishing, or fraudulent attempts to acquire passwords and financial information by masquerading as a trusted organization, is on the rise. According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), the...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Trend Micro Email Encryption Client Free Download
Jun 2009
Trend Micro Email Encryption Client is a software plug-in for popular email clients that deploys without modifying existing business processes and integrates seamlessly with the existing email...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
Keeping emails private - why businesses need email encryption
Jan 2009
With so much at stake, what are the risks of sending unencrypted emails, what are the options for keeping emails private and what are the benefits of the MessageLabs Policy Based Encryption...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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Webcasts
Spam in Your Stocking: Malicious Holiday Email... and How to Stop It
Jan 2009
Offers for holiday sales, charitable solicitations and free shipping may very well be cleverly disguised attacks by phishers attempting to obtain personal identity and financial information....
Provided by Proofpoint
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White Papers
Best Practices in E-mail Archiving
Jul 2006
If you're looking for an efficient and reliable long-term storage solution for your corporate e-mail, be sure to download this informative white paper from MessageLabs. It identifies the four key...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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Whitepapers
Comparison Guide: Proofpoint Enterprise Vs. Google Message Security (Postini)
Sep 2012
Join the many Google Postini customers who have seamlessly migrated to Proofpoint's best-in-class email security solutions. Looking for alternatives to Google's Message Security (aka Postini)...
Provided by Proofpoint
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Whitepapers
Email Security in Small and Medium-sized Businesses
Jul 2011
No organization can afford to operate without an email security strategy. The risk landscape is constantly changing with new threats surfacing every day. This white paper looks at email security...
Provided by GFI Software
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Research
Internet Security Threat Report 2012
May 2012
Spam, phishing and malware data is captured through a variety of sources, including the Symantec Probe Network, a system of more than 5 million decoy accounts and more. Over 8 billion email...
Provided by Symantec (formerly VeriSign)
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Webcasts
Stopping E-Mail Threats
Dec 2007
Spam and other e-mail scams are costing American business $10 billion annually in lost productivity, wasted IT resources, and help desk costs. And, despite predictions from industry "experts" a...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Resource Center
Get Spam Out of Your Diet in 2009
Mar 2009
Spam is a problem for everyone. According to the Cisco 2008 Annual Security Report, spam—or unsolicited bulk email—accounts for roughly 90 percent of email sent, or nearly 200 billion messages...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Solve the spam problem: Independent test report proves new approach achieves 99.997% spam catch rate
Jun 2009
As the volume of spam continues to rise and the sophistication of spammers increases, e-mail security persists as a leading concern for corporations and service providers. The effectiveness of...
Provided by Abaca Technology Corp.
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White Papers
Tangled Web : Undercover Threats, Invisible Enemies
Jun 2009
MessageLabs offers integrated web and email security services proven to stay a step ahead of the bad guys. Its Web Security service, for example, includes anti-spyware and anti-virus protection,...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
MessageLabs Intelligence : 2009 security Predictions
Jun 2009
Having analyzed the global threat landscape for almost a decade, MessageLabs Team Skeptic™ is comprised of many world-renowned malware and spam experts who have a global view of threats across...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
MessageLabs - The Dark Art of Spam
Jun 2009
Quite simply, MessageLabs anti-spam solution provides businesses with the quality of protection they urgently need if they are to stay a step ahead of the spammers - and the increasingly dark arts...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
Botnets and your Business
Jun 2009
This MessageLabs White Paper looks at the botnet threat and how it has evolved into a serious danger to business. It also gives a snapshot of botnet activity based on data gathered by MessageLabs...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
How to Defend Against New Botnets
Jun 2009
According to Symantec's MessageLabs Intelligence, botnets were responsible for 90% of spam in 2008. More importantly, these compromised "robot" computer networks do not seem to be going away...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
How Spamhaus Cost-Effectively Eliminates Spam
Mar 2008
If one uses email, one receives spam. While the problem is onerous for individual users, it is dramatically worse for companies, network operators, Internet service providers and other that...
Provided by Osterman Research
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White Papers
Net of the Living Dead: Bots, Botnets and Zombies
Apr 2009
Organized crime long ago discovered the Internet's profit potential, and has succeeded not only in recruiting the necessary expertise to exploit that potential, but in capturing and subverting a...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
F-Secure Protection Service for Business White Paper
Feb 2008
This paper is intended for F-Secure partners and their small business customers. It provides an overview of F-Secure Protection Service for Business security service solution. It says about...
Provided by F-Secure
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White Papers
Towards Automating Malware Classification and Characterization
Jan 2009
Spam has become a problem of global impact. Most spam messages are currently sent out by captured machines organized in bot networks, which are infected with malicious software and are therefore...
Provided by Seewald Solutions
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White Papers
Phishing: A Primer on What Phishing Is and How It Works.
Jun 2009
Phishing is just one of the many ways that the Internet can be used to get people to unknowingly provide their personal financial information to fraudsters. A phishing attack is most often...
Provided by DigiCert
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White Papers
What to Ask When Evaluating Messaging Security Systems
May 2008
Email is the most important communications channel for most users and organizations. However, threats directed against email are growing in number, sophistication and severity. It is critical,...
Provided by Osterman Research
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White Papers
Phishing 101
Mar 2009
Phishing is the process of enticing people to visit fraudulent websites and persuading them to enter identity information such as usernames and passwords. The information is then used to...
Provided by BITDEFENDER
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Whitepapers
The Carbon Footprint of Email Spam Report
Mar 2009
All email users throughout the world, including consumers and businesses, struggle with the scourge of spam email. The costs and risks associated with spam have been well documented and have led...
Provided by McAfee
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Whitepapers
Optimize Email Security
Jun 2013
Spear-phishing, cost concerns, exploding spam rates, data loss, increasing compliance requirements, and cloud-based deployment options may have you reevaluating your current email security...
Provided by AU: McAfee
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Whitepapers
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways
Jun 2013
McAfee Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways. With spam still representing 75% of email and email viruses, and targeted phishing attacks and...
Provided by AU: McAfee
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Whitepapers
Why phishing is back as the No. 1 web threat, and how web security can protect your company
Jun 2013
At one point, it seemed that phishing was receding to the status of a minor issue threatening only naive consumers. But a new version has emerged, fueled by new cybercriminals and new phishing...
Provided by Webroot Software
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Whitepapers
Ostra: Leveraging Trust to Thwart Unwanted Communication
Feb 2008
Online communication media such as email, instant messaging, bulletin boards, voice-over-IP, and social networking sites allow any sender to reach potentially millions of users at near zero...
Provided by Rice Software Consulting
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Whitepapers
Phishing Detection Taxonomy for Mobile Device
Jan 2013
Phishing is one of the social engineering attacks and currently hit on mobile devices. Based on security report by Lookout, 30% of Lookout users clicking on an unsafe link per year by using mobile...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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Whitepapers
The Study on the Spam Filtering Technology Based on Bayesian Algorithm
Jan 2013
In this paper, the authors analyzed spam filtering technology, carried out a detailed study of Naive Bayes algorithm, and proposed the improved Naive Bayesian mail filtering technology....
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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Whitepapers
A Framework for Email Clustering and Automatic Answering Method
Nov 2012
The mail-box consisting of number of emails in which many attributes or files are existing in a single email and hence they can be considered as a database. It is not easy to find out the...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology
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Whitepapers
Whitepaper: The Inevitable Extinction of PSTs
Apr 2013
Microsoft® Exchange administrators are responsible for the integrity, security, and availability of an organization's email platform. Some of the most common threats to mailboxes are viruses,...
Provided by Symantec Australia
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Whitepapers
Improving Spam Blacklisting Through Dynamic Thresholding and Speculative Aggregation
Jan 2010
Unsolicited Bulk E-mail (UBE) or spam constitutes a significant fraction of all e-mail connection attempts and routinely frustrates users, consumes resources, and serves as an infection vector for...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
On Collection of Large-Scale Multi-Purpose Datasets on Internet Backbone Links
Apr 2011
The authors have collected several large-scale datasets in a number of passive measurement projects on an Internet backbone link belonging to a national university network. The datasets have been...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
An Evaluation of Community Detection Algorithms on Large-Scale Email Traffic
Mar 2012
Community detection algorithms are widely used to study the structural properties of real-world networks. In this paper, the authors experimentally evaluate the qualitative performance of several...
Provided by Chalmers University of Technology
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Whitepapers
SpamResist: Making Peer-to-Peer Tagging Systems Robust to Spam
Oct 2009
Tagging systems are known to be particularly vulnerable to tag spam. Due to the self-organization and self-maintenance nature of Peer-To-Peer (P2P) overlay networks, users in the P2P tagging...
Provided by Peking Duck Software
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Whitepapers
Gateway Abstraction for Fooling the Spammers
Jun 2010
Unsolicited commercial email or "Spam" flood mailboxes, causing frustration, wasting bandwidth, and exposing minors to unsuitable content. This paper uses intelligent gatekeepers to interact with...
Provided by JCAKSRCE
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Whitepapers
Spam Filtering Through Multiple Pattern Bit Parallel String Matching Combining Shift AND and OR
Jan 2013
Spam refers to unsolicited, unwanted and inappropriate bulk email. Spam filtering has become conspicuous as they consume a lot of network bandwidth, overloads the email server and drops the...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Good for security, good for business
Apr 2013
Cyber threats continue to increase. Criminals are getting smarter, but when it comes to small businesses they are getting an easy ride. Symantec's 2012 National Small Business Study found that 83%...
Provided by Symantec
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Whitepapers
User's Verification to Prevent Malicious Access in Web-Based Forums
Feb 2013
In this paper, the authors aims to address the issue of malicious accounts that are created and used to imitate real users in web-based forums. In fact, form bots are used to create fake users on...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
A Solution for Fighting Spammer's Resources and Minimizing the Impact of Spam
Jul 2012
Spam or unsolicited emails constitute a major threat to the Internet, the corporations, and the end-users. Statistics show that about 70% - 80% of the emails are spam. There are several techniques...
Provided by Scientific Research
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Whitepapers
Efficient Spam Filtering System Based on Smart Cooperative Subjective and Objective Methods
Feb 2013
Most of the spam filtering techniques are based on objective methods such as the content filtering and DNS/reverse DNS checks. Recently, some cooperative subjective spam filtering techniques are...
Provided by Scientific Research
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Whitepapers
Design of Standard VoIP Spam Report Format Supporting Various Spam Report Methods
Feb 2013
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services can be abused by spammers who send out commercial messages in bulk due to their cost saving effects. However, an effort to prevent spam has hardly been...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Genetic Algorithm for Optimization of Bloom Filter in Spam Filtering
Mar 2012
Spam is an unsolicited e-mail on the web sent to an outsized range of users. A spam filter is employed to detect the spam mails and to prevent those mails from user's inbox. Bloom filter is used...
Provided by International Journal of Communications and Engineering
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Whitepapers
Longline Phishing - Email-borne Threats, Cloud Computing, Big Data, and the Rise of Industrial Phishing Attacks
Mar 2013
The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in the use of email as a vehicle for cyberattacks on organizations and large corporations. Such attacks have evolved from the simple inclusion of...
Provided by Proofpoint
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Whitepapers
Longline Phishing
Mar 2013
The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in the use of email as a vehicle for cyberat¬tacks on organizations and large corporations. Such attacks have evolved from the simple inclusion of...
Provided by Proofpoint
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Whitepapers
Survey on Credit Card Fraud Detection Methods
Nov 2012
Due to a rapid advancement in the electronic commerce technology, the use of credit cards has increased. As credit card becomes the most popular mode of payment for both online as well as regular...
Provided by International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)
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Whitepapers
ANFIS Based Spam Filtering Model for Social Networking Websites
Apr 2012
Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. There are various types of spam such...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Detection of Fraudulent Emails by Authorship Extraction
Mar 2012
Fraudulent emails can be detected by extraction of authorship information from the contents of emails. This paper presents information extraction based on unique words from the emails. These...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
NEIGHBORWATCHER: A Content-Agnostic Comment Spam Inference System
Jan 2013
Comment spam has become a popular means for spammers to attract direct visits to target websites, or to manipulate search ranks of the target websites. Through posting a small number of spam...
Provided by Texas A&M International University
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Whitepapers
Filtering Template Driven Spam Mails Using Vector Space Models
Feb 2012
Spam became a big problem to the society. Some spammers are using templates for sending spam. To send a particular promotion they create some template and merge the details of receivers with the...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Developing New Continuous Learning Approach for Spam Detection Using Artificial Neural Network (CLA_ANN)
Sep 2010
There are several approaches which try to stop or reduce the huge amount of spam on individuals. These approaches include legislative measures such as anti-spam laws over world-wide. Other...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
Efficient and Scalable Socware Detection in Online Social Networks
Jun 2012
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become the new vector for cybercrime, and hackers are finding new ways to propagate spam and malware on these platforms, which the authors refer to as socware....
Provided by University of Calgary
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Whitepapers
Efficient Privacy Preserving Protocols for Decentralized Computation of Reputation
Oct 2009
Reputation systems represent a key technology for securing distributed applications from misuse by dishonest entities. A reputation system computes reputation scores of the entities in the system,...
Provided by Purdue Federal Credit Union
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Whitepapers
Email Classification Using Data Reduction Method
Jun 2010
Classifying user emails correctly from penetration of spam is an important research issue for anti-spam researchers. This paper has presented an effective and efficient email classification...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Guide to Evaluating Two-Factor Authentication Solutions
Jan 2011
Passwords are a known weak link and continue to be exploited at alarming rates. From simple phishing schemes to sophisticated, targeted phishing attacks, gaining access to a user’s password is an...
Provided by PhoneFactor
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Case Studies
King Saud University: University Supports Goals With Enterprise Solution, Saves $2.2 Million in IT Costs
Nov 2011
King Saud University (KSU), a major university in the Arab world, wanted to build on its reputation for teaching and research by deploying a cost-effective IT infrastructure to improve the...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Chandris Hotels and Resorts: Hotel Chain in Greece Increases Productivity by 12 Per Cent With Cloud-Based Solution
Aug 2011
Chandris Hotels and Resorts offers customers five-star accommodation and modern conference facilities across Greece. Chandris Hotels and Resorts needed a new email solution because the existing...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Improved Near Duplicate Matching Scheme for E-Mail Spam Detection
Dec 2012
Today the major problem that the people are facing is spam mails or e-mail spam. In recent years there are so many schemes are developed to detect the spam emails. Here the primary idea of the...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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Whitepapers
Using a Data Mining Approach: Spam Detection on Facebook
Nov 2012
In this paper, the authors present a social network spam detection application based on texts. Particularly, they tested on the Facebook spam. They develop an application to test the prototype of...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Online Review Spam Detection Using Language Model and Feature Selection
Dec 2012
In today's age of web 2.0, large numbers of product reviews posted on the Internet. Such reviews are important to customers or users and to companies. Customers use the reviews for deciding...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Secure E-Mail Messaging to Selected Group Members Using PGP Technique
Nov 2010
The E-mail messaging is one of the most popular uses of the Internet and the multiple Internet users can exchange messages within short span of time using To (Original recipient),Cc (Carbon Copy)...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Email Classification for Spam Detection Using Word Stemming
Oct 2010
Unsolicited emails, known as spam, are one of the fast growing and costly problems associated with the Internet today. Among the many proposed solutions, a technique using Bayesian filtering is...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
An Efficient Search Method for the Content-Based Identification of Telephone-SPAM
May 2012
With the help of VoIP technology, large numbers of unsolicited calls can be conveniently placed and SPAM over Internet Telephony may become a major nuisance and threat. Various mitigation methods...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
Solve the spam problem: Independent test report proves new approach achieves 99.997% spam catch rate
Jun 2009
As the volume of spam continues to rise and the sophistication of spammers increases, e-mail security persists as a leading concern for corporations and service providers. The effectiveness of...
Provided by Abaca Technology Corp.
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White Papers
Choosing a Vendor: 8 Key Points to Consider When You Need to Outsource
Jun 2009
Even marketing departments at large companies will need to outsource some functions to firms who are more creative and resourceful in specific areas. Most of the time, this is a win-win: you...
Provided by SkillSoft
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White Papers
Tangled Web : Undercover Threats, Invisible Enemies
Jun 2009
MessageLabs offers integrated web and email security services proven to stay a step ahead of the bad guys. Its Web Security service, for example, includes anti-spyware and anti-virus protection,...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
MessageLabs Intelligence : 2009 security Predictions
Jun 2009
Having analyzed the global threat landscape for almost a decade, MessageLabs Team Skeptic™ is comprised of many world-renowned malware and spam experts who have a global view of threats across...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
MessageLabs - The Dark Art of Spam
Jun 2009
Quite simply, MessageLabs anti-spam solution provides businesses with the quality of protection they urgently need if they are to stay a step ahead of the spammers - and the increasingly dark arts...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
Botnets and your Business
Jun 2009
This MessageLabs White Paper looks at the botnet threat and how it has evolved into a serious danger to business. It also gives a snapshot of botnet activity based on data gathered by MessageLabs...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
Selecting a Microsoft Hosted Exchange Service Provider
Jun 2009
When it comes to the decision to outsource the delivery of your organisation's messaging solution, the task of selecting the most appropriate service provider can be daunting This whitepaper...
Provided by Cobweb Solutions Ltd
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White Papers
Trend Micro Email Encryption Client Free Download
Jun 2009
Trend Micro Email Encryption Client is a software plug-in for popular email clients that deploys without modifying existing business processes and integrates seamlessly with the existing email...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
Trend Micro Message Archiver
Jun 2009
Easy compliance, e-discovery, and email management. Take a tour today of a simple and secure email archive.
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
ANTI-SPAM SOLUTIONS - JANUARY 2009
Jun 2009
IT decision-makers now have a multitude of email solutions to consider. However, regardless of whether businesses choose email appliances, software or hosted service solutions, there are highly...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
How to Defend Against New Botnets
Jun 2009
According to Symantec's MessageLabs Intelligence, botnets were responsible for 90% of spam in 2008. More importantly, these compromised "robot" computer networks do not seem to be going away...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
F-Secure Protection Service for Business (PSB)
Mar 2009
This paper is intended for F-Secure partners and their small business customers. It provides an overview of F-Secure Protection Service for Business security service solution. F-Secure Protection...
Provided by F-Secure
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White Papers
How Spamhaus Cost-Effectively Eliminates Spam
Mar 2008
If one uses email, one receives spam. While the problem is onerous for individual users, it is dramatically worse for companies, network operators, Internet service providers and other that...
Provided by Osterman Research
-
White Papers
Net of the Living Dead: Bots, Botnets and Zombies
Apr 2009
Organized crime long ago discovered the Internet's profit potential, and has succeeded not only in recruiting the necessary expertise to exploit that potential, but in capturing and subverting a...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
F-Secure Protection Service for Business White Paper
Feb 2008
This paper is intended for F-Secure partners and their small business customers. It provides an overview of F-Secure Protection Service for Business security service solution. It says about...
Provided by F-Secure
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White Papers
Towards Automating Malware Classification and Characterization
Jan 2009
Spam has become a problem of global impact. Most spam messages are currently sent out by captured machines organized in bot networks, which are infected with malicious software and are therefore...
Provided by Seewald Solutions
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White Papers
Phishing: A Primer on What Phishing Is and How It Works.
Jun 2009
Phishing is just one of the many ways that the Internet can be used to get people to unknowingly provide their personal financial information to fraudsters. A phishing attack is most often...
Provided by DigiCert
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White Papers
What to Ask When Evaluating Messaging Security Systems
May 2008
Email is the most important communications channel for most users and organizations. However, threats directed against email are growing in number, sophistication and severity. It is critical,...
Provided by Osterman Research
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White Papers
Phishing 101
Mar 2009
Phishing is the process of enticing people to visit fraudulent websites and persuading them to enter identity information such as usernames and passwords. The information is then used to...
Provided by BITDEFENDER
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Whitepapers
The Carbon Footprint of Email Spam Report
Mar 2009
All email users throughout the world, including consumers and businesses, struggle with the scourge of spam email. The costs and risks associated with spam have been well documented and have led...
Provided by McAfee
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White Papers
Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion
Oct 2008
Spam-based marketing is a curious beast. All receives the advertisements - " Excellent Hardness is Easy!" - but few of them have encountered a person who admits to following through on this offer...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Marshal8e6's Defense-in-Depth Anti-Spam Engine
Mar 2009
Spam - it has become the email plague of the new century. In 2007, despite assurances from Bill Gates that spam would be eliminated by now, spam had its biggest year on record. The burgeoning...
Provided by Marshal8e6
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White Papers
The Cost Impact of Spam Filters: Measuring the Effect of Information System Technologies in Organizations
Oct 2008
More than 70% of global e-mail traffic consists of unsolicited and commercial direct marketing, also known as spam. Dealing with spam incurs high costs for organizations, prompting efforts to try...
Provided by University of Hamburg
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White Papers
Web Spam: A Survey With Vision for the Archivist
Aug 2008
While Web archive quality is endangered by Web spam, a side effect of the high commercial value of top-ranked search-engine results, so far Web spam filtering technologies are rarely used by Web...
Provided by MTA SZTAKI
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White Papers
NETGEAR In-The-Cloud Distributed SpamAnalysis Technology: Network Based Protection Against Email-Borne Threats
Jan 2009
Over the past few years, email has emerged as the primary vector for an array of computer threats such as spam, viruses, Trojans, and phishing attacks. With the capability to mass-mail on a global...
Provided by NETGEAR
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White Papers
ITU Study on the Financial Aspects of Network Security: Malware and Spam
Jul 2008
Malware is a summary term for different forms of malevolent software designed to infiltrate and infect computers, typically without the knowledge of the owner. During the past two decades, the...
Provided by International Telecommunication Union
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White Papers
BotMiner: Clustering Analysis of Network Traffic for Protocol- and Structure-Independent Botnet Detection
May 2008
Botnets are now the key platform for many Internet attacks, such as spam, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS), identity theft, and phishing. Most of the current botnet detection approaches work...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
The Spam-Ish Inquisition
Apr 2009
UCE is usually regarded as a subset of UBE, though it's a very considerable percentage of 'Spammy' email, and many simply use the term UCE interchangeably with 'Spam'. Bulk email such as...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
An Anti-Phishing Application for the End User
Apr 2009
Seeking sensitive user data in the form of online banking user-id and passwords or credit card information, which may then be used by 'Phishers' for their own personal gain is the primary...
Provided by Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
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White Papers
Anti-Phishing in Offense and Defense
Sep 2008
Many anti-phishing mechanisms currently focus on helping users verify whether a web site is genuine. However, usability studies have demonstrated that prevention-based approaches alone fail to...
Provided by College of William and Mary
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White Papers
Thwarting E-mail Spam Laundering
Dec 2008
Laundering e-mail spam through open-proxies or compromised PCs is a widely-used trick to conceal real spam sources and reduce spamming cost in the underground e-mail spam industry. Spammers have...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Fishing for Phishing From the Network Stream
Oct 2008
Phishing is an increasingly prevalent social-engineering attack that attempts identity theft using spoofed Web pages of legitimate organizations. Unfortunately, current phishing detection methods...
Provided by AT&T Labs-Research
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White Papers
BitDefender Lab Publishes First E-Threats Landscape Report
Jul 2008
BitDefender's security experts analyzed and examined the menaces of the first half of 2008, focusing on software vulnerabilities and exploits, different types of malware, as well as...
Provided by BITDEFENDER
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White Papers
Learning to Detect Spam: Naive-Euclidean Approach
Nov 2008
A method is proposed for learning to classify spam and non-spam emails. It combines the strategy of the Best Stepwise Feature Selection with a classifier of Euclidean nearest-neighbor. Each text...
Provided by University of Aizu
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White Papers
A Phased Framework for Countering VoIP SPAM
Nov 2008
VoIP spam will become severe problem preventing from generalization of VoIP service. For the purpose of presenting multi-leveled anti-spit framework, they divided VoIP service domain into three...
Provided by Korea Information Security Agency
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White Papers
An In-depth Analysis of Spam and Spammers
Apr 2008
Electronic mail services have become an important source of communication for millions of people all over the world. Due to this tremendous growth, there has been a significant increase in spam...
Provided by Hannam university
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White Papers
Using Visual Features for Anti-Spam Filtering
Jan 2009
Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE), also known as spam, has been a major problem on the Internet. In the past, researchers have addressed this problem as a text classification or categorization...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Temporal Correlations Between Spam and Phishing Websites
Jan 2009
To implement a phishing scam, attackers must create a fake website and send spam to attract visitors. To date, empirical research into phishing's impact has studied either the spam being sent or...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Extracting Spam Blogs With Co-Citation Clusters
Apr 2008
This paper reports the estimated number of spam blogs in order to assess their current state in the blogosphere. To extract spam blogs, they developed a traversal method among co-citation clusters...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Spam Filtering Using a Markov Random Field Model With Variable Weighting Schemas
Jan 2009
This paper presents a Markov Random Field model based approach to filter spam. Their approach examines the importance of the neighborhood relationship (MRF cliques) among words in an email message...
Provided by University of California
