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Enable Administrators to Morph into Managers by Leveraging Real-time Analytics and Automation
Take a look at this white paper to learn more about using real-time analytics and automation to get more out of your IT admins and make your network easier to manage.
Sponsored by VMware Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800
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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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White Papers
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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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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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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Case Studies
An ROI Case Study of One Manufacturer's Microsoft Exchange Server Deployment
Jan 2005
This case study from Nucleus Research describes the connectivity and communications challenges that sales representatives for Lifetime Products, Inc., were facing on the road, and explains how the...
Provided by Microsoft
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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
Economics of Spam
Aug 2009
Email security threats do not discriminate. Whether you're an organization with 50 employees or a global corporation with 50,000, the reality is that spam and viruses can wreak havoc on your...
Provided by GFI Software
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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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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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White Papers
Enterprise Vault: Granular Provisioning Best Practice
Apr 2007
This paper describes how to successfully implement granular provisioning using Enterprise Vault for Exchange V7 and the best practices that can be adopted. With EV7 there is now a new and highly...
Provided by Symantec
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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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Whitepapers - Video
Webinar: Erase email complexity when moving to the cloud
Mar 2012
Cloud computing has led to a revolution in the way people work. The days of being tied to a desk PC are gone: many modern workers can remotely access the email, files and data they need. They are...
Provided by Mimecast
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White Papers
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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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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White Papers
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
Survey on Spam Filtering Techniques
Aug 2011
In the recent years spam became as a big problem of Internet and electronic communication. There developed a lot of techniques to fight them. In this paper the overview of existing e-mail spam...
Provided by Scientific Research Publishing
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White Papers
Why Content Filters Can't Eradicate Spam - Free Guide
May 2012
Spam means different things to different people. Some people define any unwanted or unsolicited email as spam, while others consider all bulk emails to be spam. This range of perceptions, coupled...
Provided by Mimecast
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Downloads
Quest Migration Assessment Tool (QMAT)
Apr 2012
Get a Free Migration Assessment Considering a migration? The Quest Migration Assessment Tool evaluates Microsoft Exchange Online, Google Gmail, and Microsoft Exchange 2010, and compares features...
Provided by Quest Software
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White Papers
Exploiting Redundancy in Natural Language to Penetrate Bayesian Spam Filters
Jul 2007
Today's attacks against Bayesian spam filters attempt to keep the content of spam mails visible to humans, but obscured to filters. A common technique is to fool filters by appending additional...
Provided by University of Vienna
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White Papers
Learn Why Proofpoint is the Email Security Solution of Choice
Apr 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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White Papers
The New Phishing Threat: Phishing Attacks
Apr 2012
Learn about the Latest Email Security Threats. Phishing The threat of email borne attacks is greater than ever with malware volumes increasing drastically. One of the most common, and difficult...
Provided by Proofpoint
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White Papers
Identification of Image Spam by Using Low Level & Metadata Features
Mar 2012
Spammers are constantly evolving new spam technologies, the latest of which is image spam. Till now research in spam image identification has been addressed by considering properties like colour,...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
You Can SPIT, But You Can't Hide: Spammer Identification in Telephony Networks
Mar 2011
SPam over Internet Telephony (SPIT) is a new form of spam delivered using the phone network. With the low cost of Internet telephony, SPIT has become an attractive alternative for spammers to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Characterizing Botnets From Email Spam Records
Jan 2012
The authors develop new techniques to map botnet membership using traces of spam email. To group bots into botnets they look for multiple bots participating in the same spam email campaign. They...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
An Empirical Study of Behavioral Characteristics of Spammers: Findings and Implications
Apr 2011
In this paper, the authors present a detailed study of the behavioral characteristics of spammers based on a two month email trace collected at a large US university campus network. They analyze...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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Whitepapers - Video
Webinar: Erase email complexity when moving to the cloud
Mar 2012
Cloud computing has led to a revolution in the way people work. The days of being tied to a desk PC are gone: many modern workers can remotely access the email, files and data they need. They are...
Provided by Mimecast
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White Papers
Detecting Spam Bots in Online Social Networking Sites: A Machine Learning Approach
Apr 2010
As online social networking sites become more and more popular, they have also attracted the attentions of the spammers. In this paper, Twitter, a popular micro-blogging service, is studied as an...
Provided by Pennsylvania State University
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White Papers
SureMsg: A XMPP-Based Security e-Mail System
Aug 2007
The Internet e-mail service based on SMTP protocol is an important information infrastructure. Meanwhile, the instant messaging becomes an emerging Internet application. This paper presents a...
Provided by Inderscience Enterprises
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White Papers
Practical Evaluation of a Spam Prevention Architecture for IMS Networks
Jul 2008
Telecommunications technologies are advancing rapidly particularly in the field of mobile telephony. Improved network architectures will provide cheaper, more accessible mobile communication, but...
Provided by University of Cape Town
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White Papers
Partial Image Spam e-Mail Detection Using OCR
Jun 2011
Even though there a number of inbuilt e-mail filtering software associated with every e-mail service providers like Gmail, Yahoo mail they identify only text spam and image spam. As a result they...
Provided by Anna University
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White Papers
A Phishing Model and Its Applications to Evaluating Phishing Attacks
Nov 2011
Phishing is a growing threat to Internet users and causes billions of dollars in damage every year. In this paper, the authors present a theoretical yet practical model to study this threat in a...
Provided by Sam Houston State University
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White Papers
School of Phish: A Real-World Evaluation of Anti-Phishing Training
Jul 2009
PhishGuru is an embedded training system that teaches users to avoid falling for phishing attacks by delivering a training message when the user clicks on the URL in a simulated phishing email. In...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Anti-Phishing Phil: The Design and Evaluation of a Game That Teaches People Not to Fall for Phish
Jul 2007
In this paper, the authors describe the design and evaluation of Anti-Phishing Phil, an online game that teaches users good habits to help them avoid phishing attacks. They used learning science...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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Case Studies
Leading Security Software Vendor Partners With Luxoft to Test Its Flagship Products
Feb 2012
Kaspersky Lab is one of the world's largest IT security solutions providers, offering comprehensive protection against all forms of IT threats such as viruses, spyware, hackers and spam. Their...
Provided by LUXOFT
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White Papers
Trends in Combating Image Spam E-mails
Jan 2012
With the rapid adoption of Internet as an easy way to communicate, the amount of unsolicited e-mails, known as spam e-mails, has been growing rapidly. The major problem of spam e-mails is the loss...
Provided by International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology (IACSIT)
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White Papers
Measuring The Botnet Using The Second Character of Bots
Jan 2010
Botnets have become one of the most serious threats to the Internet. They are now the key platform for many Internet attacks, such as spam, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS), and the authors...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Blocking Spam by Separating End-User Machines From Legitimate Mail Server Machines
Sep 2011
Spamming botnets present a critical challenge in the control of spam messages due to the sheer volume and wide spread of the botnet members. In this paper, the authors advocate the approach for...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
3-Clique Attacks in Online Social Networks
Sep 2011
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become ubiquitous in the past few years, counting hundreds of millions of people as members. In this paper, the authors show that the ease of accessing third...
Provided by Purdue University
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White Papers
Web Spam Detection Using Different Features
Jul 2011
Spamming is any deliberate action solely in order to boost a web page's position in search engine results, incommensurate with page's real value. Web Spam is the Web pages that are the result of...
Provided by International Journal of Soft Computing and Engineering (IJSCE)
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White Papers
An Empirical Analysis of Phishing Blacklists
Jul 2009
In this paper, the authors study the effectiveness of phishing black-lists. They used 191 fresh phish that were less than 30 minutes old to conduct two tests on eight anti-phishing tool-bars. They...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Data Mining for Security and Crime Detection
Jun 2008
As the internet becomes more pervasive in all areas of human activity, attackers can use the anonymity of the cyberspace to commit crimes and compromise the IT infrastructure. As currently there...
Provided by Fraunhofer IAIS
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White Papers
Intelligent Phishing Detection System for e-Banking Using Fuzzy Data Mining
Aug 2010
Detecting and identifying any phishing websites in real-time, particularly for e-banking, is really a complex and dynamic problem involving many factors and criteria. Because of the subjective...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
An Effective Strategy for Identifying Phishing Websites Using Class-Based Approach
Dec 2011
This paper presents a novel approach to overcome the difficulty and complexity in detecting and predicting social networking phishing website. The authors proposed an intelligent resilient and...
Provided by International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research
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White Papers
Social Networks and Context-Aware Spam
Nov 2008
Social networks are popular for online communities. This paper evaluates the risk of sophisticated context-aware spam that could result from information sharing on social networks and discusses...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
PhishDef: URL Names Say It All
Mar 2011
Phishing is an increasingly sophisticated method to steal personal user information using sites that pretend to be legitimate. In this paper, the authors take the following steps to identify...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Analyzing the Aftermath of the McColo Shutdown
Apr 2009
This paper examines how spam behavior was impacted by the shutdown of Mc-Colo, a service provider known for its lax security enforcement. Since the shutdown, a variety of sources have reported...
Provided by Colorado State University
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White Papers
Phoolproof Phishing Prevention
Apr 2006
Phishing, or web spoofing, is a growing problem: the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) received almost 14,000 unique phishing reports in August 2005, a 56% jump over the number of reports in...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Link Spam Detection Based on DBSPAMCLUST With Fuzzy C-Means Clustering
Dec 2010
This Search engine became omnipresent means for ingoing to the web. Spamming Search engine is the technique to deceiving the ranking in search engine and it inflates the ranking. Web spammers have...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Whitepapers - Video
McAfee Cloud Security Platform with New Security Capabilities from Intel
Jun 2011
Scott Chasin, McAfee CTO, Content & Cloud, talks about the availability of Intel® Expressway Cloud Access 360 and Intel® Expressway Service Gateway as modules in the McAfee Cloud Security...
Provided by Intel Corporation
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White Papers
An ISP Based Notification and Detection System to Maximize Efficiency of Client Honeypots in Protection of End Users
Sep 2011
End users are increasingly vulnerable to attacks directed at web browsers which make the most of popularity of today's web services. While organizations deploy several layers of security to...
Provided by University of Canterbury
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White Papers
Techniques and Tools for Forensic Investigation of E-mail
Nov 2011
E-mail has emerged as the most important application on Internet for communication of messages, delivery of documents and carrying out of transactions and is used not only from computers but many...
Provided by University Of Kashmir
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White Papers
Spam Weeding, Detection and Filtering on P2P System
Oct 2011
Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) defines a mechanism for using digital signatures on E-Mail at the domain level, allowing the receiving domain to confirm that E-Mail came from the domain it...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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White Papers
SOAP: A Social Network Aided Personalized and Effective Spam Filter to Clean Your e-Mail Box
Mar 2011
The explosive growth of unsolicited emails has prompted the development of numerous spam filtering techniques. A Bayesian spam filter is superior to a static keyword based spam filter because it...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
STAMP: Toward Reclaiming Email Address Privacy
Apr 2008
Email has grown into one of the dominant forms of communication in the 21st century. However, email systems were designed without security in mind, thus allowing attackers to abuse the system and...
Provided by Purdue University
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White Papers
Return on Information Security Investment - The Viability of an Anti-Spam Solution in a Wireless Environment
Jan 2010
Much is said about the importance of investing in information security, but little is known on the ex-tent and effectiveness of such security programmes. A model that analyses the mechanics of an...
Provided by University of Malta
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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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White Papers
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
