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White Papers
Modeling Content From Human-Verified Blacklists for Accurate Zero-Hour Phish Detection
Aug 2009
Phishing attacks are a significant security threat to users of the Internet, causing tremendous economic loss every year. Past work in academia has not been adopted by industry in part due to...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Spam or Ham? Characterizing and Detecting Fraudulent "Not Spam" Reports in Web Mail Systems
Apr 2011
Web mail providers rely on users to "Vote" to quickly and collaboratively identify spam messages. Unfortunately, spammers have begun to use large collections of compromised accounts not only to...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
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White Papers
Phishing Guard and Antivirus: A New Approach
May 2008
One of the simplest ways to violate private bounds of individuals in digital world is "Phishing". Several methods have been introduced in order to confront with these abstruse phenomena, which...
Provided by University of Semnan
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White Papers
Improving Bayesian Spam Filters Using String Edit Distance Algorithm
Apr 2008
Unsolicited emails, known as spam, are one of the fast growing and costly problems associated with the Internet today. Recent research has shown an almost 20% monthly increase in spam with an...
Provided by Hanoi University of Technology
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White Papers
Open Source Spam Filtering
Apr 2008
Spam is an expensive problem for enterprises because it not only poses a threat to their internal computing environments but also requires a significant investment in filtering technology. With...
Provided by Carleton University
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White Papers
User Feedback Based Metasearching Using Rough Set Theory
May 2008
Metasearching is the process of combining search results of different search systems into a single set of ranked results which, in turn, is expected to be better than the results of the best of...
Provided by Aligarh Muslim University
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White Papers
Feature Based Techniques for Auto-Detection of Novel Email Worms
May 2008
Worms are malicious code that infect a host machine and spread copies of itself through the network to infect other hosts. There are different kinds of worms such as: email worms, Instant...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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Whitepapers
Proof Positive - Extended Validation SSL Increases Online Sales and Transactions
May 2010
With the threat of identity theft and other types of fraud rampant on the internet, many consumers are reluctant to release their details, even if that means abandoning a sale. Read this white...
Provided by VeriSign
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Whitepapers - Video
GFI MailEssentials Complete Appliance Demonstration
Jul 2011
View a 20-minute product demo of this comprehensive email protection solution that combines antivirus, anti-spam and attachment filtering in a robust, highly scalable, easy-to-manage platform.
Provided by GFI Software
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White Papers
Lexical Feature Based Phishing URL Detection Using Online Learning
Oct 2010
Phishing is a form of cybercrime where spammed emails and fraudulent websites entice victims to provide sensitive information to the phishes. The acquired sensitive information is subsequently...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Fighting WebSpam: Detecting Spam on the Graph Via Content and Link Features
May 2008
The authors address a novel semi-supervised learning strategy for Web Spam issue. The proposed approach explores graph construction which is the key of representing data semantical relationship,...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
On the Effects of Registrar-Level Intervention
Mar 2011
Virtually all Internet scams make use of domain name resolution as a critical part of their execution (e.g., resolving a spam-advertised URL to its web site). Consequently, defenders have...
Provided by UC Regents
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Whitepapers
Spam Filter Optimality Based on Signal Detection Theory
Oct 2009
Unsolicited bulk email, commonly known as spam, represents a significant problem on the Internet. The seriousness of the situation is reflected by the fact that approximately 97% of the total...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
10 Essential Steps to Web Security
Jul 2007
The Web is changing fast from a one-way medium for "brochure-ware" to a highly interactive, sophisticated, mission-critical platform. The new, "Web 2.0" applications - from social networking to...
Provided by Clearswift
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Whitepapers
Design Considerations on Data Oriented Communication Services for Future Network
Sep 2009
This paper investigates data-oriented communication services design for Future Network. The authors provide initial design considerations in terms of advantages and applicability with some use...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
Demystifying Web 2.0: Opportunities, Threats, Defenses
Aug 2007
Every new technology introduced into the enterprise brings with it new threats. Web 2.0 is no different, with threats including: Infection and downtime -- caused by viruses, worms, Trojans and...
Provided by Clearswift
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Case Studies
Singer Recaptures $40,000 in Lost Productivity Costs With Hosted E-Mail Filtering
Sep 2007
Singer Sewing Company manufacturers and distributes its sewing products worldwide. As a global manufacturer, Singer depends on its e-mail system. But, in 2003, the company found its corporate...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain
Mar 2011
Spam-based advertising is a business. While it has engendered both widespread antipathy and a multi-billion dollar anti-spam industry, it continues to exist because it fuels a profitable...
Provided by Budapest University of Technology and Economics
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White Papers
SPAM Prevention Using Access Code (AC)
Jun 2007
This paper considers the importance of email in today's communication and the issue of SPAM related to email. This paper proposes a mechanism which prevents spam by using an Access Code (AC) which...
Provided by Loughborough University
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White Papers
The Case for Public Work
Jan 2008
Whether it is port scans, spam, or distributed denial-of-service attacks from botnets, unwanted traffic is a fundamental problem in all networked systems. Although proof-of-work has been proposed...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers
Suspended Accounts in Retrospect: An Analysis of Twitter Spam
Nov 2011
In this paper, the authors examine the abuse of online social networks at the hands of spammers through the lens of the tools, techniques, and support infrastructure they rely upon. To perform...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
B-APT: Bayesian Anti-Phishing Toolbar
Apr 2008
Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in the nation, and phishing has been a primary tool used for this type of theft. In this paper, the authors present B-APT, a Bayesian...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Detecting E-mail Spam Using Spam Word Associations
Apr 2012
Now-a-days, mailbox management has become a big task. A large proportion of the emails the authors receive are spam. These unwanted emails clog the inbox and are very ubiquitous. Here, a new...
Provided by International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)
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Whitepapers
Phishing: How to protect your business
Oct 2012
You no longer need to be a sophisticated hacker to commit fraud on the Internet. Anyone who is motivated can join in, thanks to the off-the-shelf phishing kits provided by a thriving cybercrime...
Provided by Symantec
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Whitepapers
A Survey on Web Spam Detection Methods: Taxonomy
Sep 2012
Web spam refers to some techniques, which try to manipulate search engine ranking algorithms in order to raise web page position in search engine results. In the best case, spammers encourage...
Provided by sharick
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Whitepapers
Collaborative Spam Filtering
Aug 2011
In this paper, the authors fully deal about the concept of enormous spam e-mails directed at large numbers of recipients, designing effective collaborative anti-spam systems raises several...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA)
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Whitepapers
Adding SPF to Your Anti-Spam Solution
May 2011
The Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an open standard that introduces a grammar for domains to describe the email they send. These descriptions are published in the Domain Name System (DNS), and...
Provided by Network Box
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Whitepapers
Parameterizing Access Control for Heterogeneous Peer-to-Peer Applications
Jun 2007
Peer-to-peer overlays are being used for domain name resolution, massive multiplayer games, cooperative spam filtering, content sales and distribution, digital libraries, and data storage. As a...
Provided by University of Northern Iowa
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Whitepapers
On the Difficulty of Counting Spam Sources
Jul 2010
A great deal of spam comes from botnets and there is considerable interest in arranging for the bots (the compromised machines) to be made secure. In practice, the owner of the compromised machine...
Provided by University of California, Santa Cruz
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Whitepapers
How Webroot SecureAnywhere Business-Endpoint Protection and Windows 8 Change Everything
Jul 2012
Endpoint Protection compliments this screening approach perfectly. With difficult to classify 'unknown' files, or those that have fooled the reputation filtering, the added power of the Webroot...
Provided by Webroot Software
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Whitepapers
Mitigating SMS Spam by Online Detection of Repetitive Near-Duplicate Messages
May 2012
Short Message Service (SMS) spam is increasingly becoming a problem for many telecommunication service providers. Not only do SMS spam messages use mobile network resources abusively, but also in...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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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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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
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
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
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
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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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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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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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
SonicWALL Case Study: Jet Plumbing
Jun 2008
Jet Plumbing and Drain Services provides plumbing, heating and drain service work for residential, commercial and industrial customers in the Northern Nevada region. The challenge was to...
Provided by SonicWALL
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White Papers
Spamware - Email Address Harvesting Tools and Anonymous Bulk Emailing Software
Apr 2009
Spam works because it is such a low-cost, high-reach endeavor. For very little investment and effort, spammers can reach millions of potential customers, and just 100 responses out of 10 million...
Provided by Spam Soap
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White Papers
Email Defense Service: Overview
Aug 2009
Don't be fooled. Spam is not just a nuisance. It is a productivity-killer, a carrier of network-debilitating viruses, and a way for cyber criminals to send more spam. Be in control with MX Logic...
Provided by MX Logic
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White Papers
The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall for Email Redundancy
Mar 2009
This paper describes how to use a Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall to obtain a level of redundancy and high reliability for email system without the complexity of setting up redundant email...
Provided by Barracuda Networks
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Case Studies
Cancer Treatment Centers of America
Apr 2009
Launched in 1988, Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) has more than 130 guest rooms and outpatient oncology clinics in Illinois, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Washington. As spam has increased...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Technology Provider Gives Cisco IronPort Email Security an A+
May 2009
As a leading information technology provider, ePlus inc. provides its federal, municipal and commercial customers with the most advanced products and services to optimize their IT infrastructure...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
The Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Stops Patient Data Leaks With Proofpoint
Mar 2009
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's key healthcare trusts. The challenge was an email encryption solution that integrated easily into current Exchange deployment...
Provided by Proofpoint
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White Papers
An Analysis of Sendio's Anti-Spam Offering
Jan 2009
The benefits should not be underestimated. In an environment of increasing financial pressures caused by a faltering economy, coupled with the continuing need to protect users and organizations...
Provided by Osterman Research
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White Papers
Building a Better Spam Trap: Choosing the Best Defense for Tomorrow's Emerging Email Threats
Jul 2009
The nature of spam is changing, incorporating a wide spectrum of email-borne attacks that can stifle productivity, infect corporate networks and undermine corporate reputation and regulatory...
Provided by SonicWALL
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White Papers
ReputationAuthority: Your First Line of Defense
Aug 2009
Commonly, spammers and unknown solicitors send email to a local domain, domains that match destination or IP address, looking for a valid email address. Once the spammer receives confirmation of...
Provided by Borderware Technologies
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White Papers
Malware in Email
Aug 2009
Email is known to be one of the most popular infection vectors. Besides malicious programs attached to messages, email is linked to other threats such as phishing and messages containing links to...
Provided by Borderware Technologies
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White Papers
Stopping Spam in Higher Education
Aug 2008
The rise in spam is a pain point for everyone involved. Student and faculty users, most of who are already pressed for time, must spend additional energy sifting through unwanted messages to make...
Provided by IronPort Systems
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White Papers
IronPort's Multi-Layer Spam Defense Architectural Overview
Feb 2008
IronPort Anti-Spam combines best-of-breed conventional techniques with IronPort's breakthrough context-sensitive detection technology to revolutionize the fight against email threats. Today's spam...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Comparing Industry Leading Anti-Spam Services
Mar 2009
The following analysis summarizes the spam catch and false positive rates of the leading anti-spam vendors. Compiled by Opus One, an independent research firm, this report provides data to...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Best Practices in Using Reputation-Based Anti-Spam Services for Email Security
Feb 2009
One of the most efficient, least costly and, remarkably, most effective anti-spam techniques is IP reputation filtering. An incredibly inexpensive technique for the anti-spam gateway, IP...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Whitepapers
Beat Spam Today with Accurate and Adaptive Protection
Jul 2008
Mounting an effective defense against spam requires detection techniques that can evolve as quickly as the attacks themselves. Without the ability to automatically adapt to detect new types of...
Provided by Proofpoint
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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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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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Webcasts
No Summer Vacation From Spam
Jan 2009
The presenter will discuss the latest email threats-including new spam techniques, phishing scams and blended threats- and how one can protect the organization, email system and end users this summer.
Provided by Proofpoint
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Webcasts
Stop Spam, Gain ROI With Virtual Appliances
Jan 2009
The presenter of this webcast will discusses how Proofpoint's breakthrough virtual appliance for messaging security delivers the industry's most advanced defense against spam, viruses and content...
Provided by Proofpoint
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Case Studies
Zapping Spam on BlackBerries
Jan 2009
The reduction in spam removed a huge source of irritation and allowed the Sunridge Blackberries to do the job they were meant to do - deliver hassle-free mobile communications. The solution looked...
Provided by Untangle
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Case Studies
American Internet Services Protects Customers From Spam and Speeds Email Delivery With F5 Solution
Feb 2009
American Internet Services (AIS) is the fastest growing provider of data center and colocation services in Southern California, serving businesses of all sizes from startups to Fortune 10...
Provided by F5 Networks
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Whitepapers
How to Market and Sell Services with Webinars
Sep 2009
Let's face it: Marketing budgets are not growing by leaps and bounds. Instead, services marketers are honing their budget-stretching skills. There is, however, one cost-effective strategy that...
Provided by Citrix Online
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Case Studies
Nortel on Nortel: An Anti-Spam Solution That Works
Jan 2009
On any given workday, Nortel IT blocks 97-99% of incoming spam emails, which amounts to between 300,000 to 1.1 million unwanted messages and includes approximately 55,000 messages with malicious...
Provided by Nortel Networks
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Whitepapers
HP-UX Internet Services: HP-UX Mailing Solutions White Paper
Oct 2008
This white paper discusses how to setup the mail server using Sendmail in an HP-UX operating system and how to obtain additional security, anti-spamming, and antivirus features in the mail server...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Georgia Department of Human Resources Relies on McAfee to Protect Against Incoming Spam and Malware
Apr 2009
The Georgia Department of Human Resources is the state's largest agency with 19,000 employees in 159 counties. It provides health and social services to the state's citizens. It needed to manage...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
Leading Law Firm Solves Compliance Issue With Webroot Security SaaS
Oct 2008
Founded in 1984, Watson Goepel Maledy has grown from four partners to a mixed practice firm of over 35 lawyers. The firm attributes a large part of its success to a strong customer service...
Provided by Webroot Software
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Webcasts
How Does the State of Spam Affect Your Small Business?
Aug 2009
Spammers use popular events to cover their tracks?. The recent death of Michael Jackson and its subsequent public interest show that spammers are willing to use any notable event as a cover to...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Spam, Spammers, and Spam Control
Mar 2009
Just about anybody with an email address knows about spam and spam filters - or at least they think they do. However, it is a complex subject, with far more to it than meets the eye. This Ferris...
Provided by Ferris Research
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White Papers
Using WMI Scripts With BitDefender Client Security
Aug 2008
BitDefender Client Security is a robust and easy-to-use business security and management solution, which delivers superior proactive protection from viruses, spyware, rootkits, spam, phishing and...
Provided by BITDEFENDER
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White Papers
Choosing the Right Email Security Deployment
Mar 2009
Enterprises of all sizes face the same daunting challenges - increasing mail volumes and new, evolving threats. The Cisco IronPort Email Security services portfolio provides customers superior...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Marshal's Defense-in-Depth Anti-Spam Engine
Jan 2008
This whitepaper explores the underlying anti-spam and anti-phishing defense technology in Marshal's world leading email gateway security solution MailMarshal SMTP. The objective of this whitepaper...
Provided by Marshal
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White Papers
Cisco 2008 Annual Security Report: Highlighting Global Security Threats and Trends
Dec 2008
There was an enormous amount of activity related to data and online security during the past year. Although no single, overwhelming attack - such as the spread of Melissa, Slammer, or Storm...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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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
Underground Economy Report
Jan 2009
This survey of cybercrime activity in the underground economy includes a discussion of some of the more notable groups involved, as well as an examination of some of the major advertisers and the...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
Top Ten Tips to Improve Email Security Infrastructure
Jan 2009
Every organization must maintain robust email security defenses, but it is getting harder as the spam volumes are increasing, malware is becoming stealthier, and developers of malicious content...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
Resolving FP-TP Conflict in Digest-Based Collaborative Spam Detection by Use of Negative Selection Algorithm
Aug 2008
A well-known approach for collaborative spam filtering is to determine which emails belong to the same bulk, e.g. by exploiting their content similarity. This allows, after ob-serving an initial...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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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
Artificial Immune System for Collaborative Spam Filtering
Nov 2008
Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) use the concepts and algorithms inspired by the theory of how the human immune system works. This paper presents the design and initial evaluation of a new...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Whitepapers
Attachment Spam - The Latest Trend: Spammers Using Common File Formats as Attachments for Pump and-Dump Scams
Jun 2009
This white paper explains what makes spam such an unbearable problem and how spamming tactics are evolving daily to beat anti-spam software. In the space of two months, spammers have switched from...
Provided by GFI Software
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White Papers
10 Essential Steps to Web Security
Jul 2007
The Web is changing fast from a one-way medium for "brochure-ware" to a highly interactive, sophisticated, mission-critical platform. The new, "Web 2.0" applications - from social networking to...
Provided by Clearswift
-
Whitepapers
Design Considerations on Data Oriented Communication Services for Future Network
Sep 2009
This paper investigates data-oriented communication services design for Future Network. The authors provide initial design considerations in terms of advantages and applicability with some use...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
Demystifying Web 2.0: Opportunities, Threats, Defenses
Aug 2007
Every new technology introduced into the enterprise brings with it new threats. Web 2.0 is no different, with threats including: Infection and downtime -- caused by viruses, worms, Trojans and...
Provided by Clearswift
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Case Studies
Singer Recaptures $40,000 in Lost Productivity Costs With Hosted E-Mail Filtering
Sep 2007
Singer Sewing Company manufacturers and distributes its sewing products worldwide. As a global manufacturer, Singer depends on its e-mail system. But, in 2003, the company found its corporate...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain
Mar 2011
Spam-based advertising is a business. While it has engendered both widespread antipathy and a multi-billion dollar anti-spam industry, it continues to exist because it fuels a profitable...
Provided by Budapest University of Technology and Economics
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White Papers
SPAM Prevention Using Access Code (AC)
Jun 2007
This paper considers the importance of email in today's communication and the issue of SPAM related to email. This paper proposes a mechanism which prevents spam by using an Access Code (AC) which...
Provided by Loughborough University
-
White Papers
The Case for Public Work
Jan 2008
Whether it is port scans, spam, or distributed denial-of-service attacks from botnets, unwanted traffic is a fundamental problem in all networked systems. Although proof-of-work has been proposed...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
Whitepapers
Suspended Accounts in Retrospect: An Analysis of Twitter Spam
Nov 2011
In this paper, the authors examine the abuse of online social networks at the hands of spammers through the lens of the tools, techniques, and support infrastructure they rely upon. To perform...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
Whitepapers
B-APT: Bayesian Anti-Phishing Toolbar
Apr 2008
Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in the nation, and phishing has been a primary tool used for this type of theft. In this paper, the authors present B-APT, a Bayesian...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
-
Whitepapers
Detecting E-mail Spam Using Spam Word Associations
Apr 2012
Now-a-days, mailbox management has become a big task. A large proportion of the emails the authors receive are spam. These unwanted emails clog the inbox and are very ubiquitous. Here, a new...
Provided by International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)
-
Whitepapers
Phishing: How to protect your business
Oct 2012
You no longer need to be a sophisticated hacker to commit fraud on the Internet. Anyone who is motivated can join in, thanks to the off-the-shelf phishing kits provided by a thriving cybercrime...
Provided by Symantec
-
Whitepapers
A Survey on Web Spam Detection Methods: Taxonomy
Sep 2012
Web spam refers to some techniques, which try to manipulate search engine ranking algorithms in order to raise web page position in search engine results. In the best case, spammers encourage...
Provided by sharick
-
Whitepapers
Collaborative Spam Filtering
Aug 2011
In this paper, the authors fully deal about the concept of enormous spam e-mails directed at large numbers of recipients, designing effective collaborative anti-spam systems raises several...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA)
-
Whitepapers
Adding SPF to Your Anti-Spam Solution
May 2011
The Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an open standard that introduces a grammar for domains to describe the email they send. These descriptions are published in the Domain Name System (DNS), and...
Provided by Network Box
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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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Whitepapers
Parameterizing Access Control for Heterogeneous Peer-to-Peer Applications
Jun 2007
Peer-to-peer overlays are being used for domain name resolution, massive multiplayer games, cooperative spam filtering, content sales and distribution, digital libraries, and data storage. As a...
Provided by University of Northern Iowa
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Whitepapers
On the Difficulty of Counting Spam Sources
Jul 2010
A great deal of spam comes from botnets and there is considerable interest in arranging for the bots (the compromised machines) to be made secure. In practice, the owner of the compromised machine...
Provided by University of California, Santa Cruz
-
Whitepapers
How Webroot SecureAnywhere Business-Endpoint Protection and Windows 8 Change Everything
Jul 2012
Endpoint Protection compliments this screening approach perfectly. With difficult to classify 'unknown' files, or those that have fooled the reputation filtering, the added power of the Webroot...
Provided by Webroot Software
-
Whitepapers
Mitigating SMS Spam by Online Detection of Repetitive Near-Duplicate Messages
May 2012
Short Message Service (SMS) spam is increasingly becoming a problem for many telecommunication service providers. Not only do SMS spam messages use mobile network resources abusively, but also in...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
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
-
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
-
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
-
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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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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White Papers
Dynamic DNS - A Survey of the Abuse Mechanisms Affecting It and the Growing Problem for Network Defenders Defending Against Them
Jul 2011
Dynamic DNS although generally used to provide legitimate services has, like so many other technologies in use today, been exploited for a variety of criminal purposes. Dynamic DNS is being...
Provided by VulnerabilityAssessment
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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
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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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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White Papers
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Email: Proactive Steps to Defend Your Email Network
Nov 2007
Email and other messaging technologies are evolving fast--and bringing new threats. Now, learn how you can head them off. This timely whitepaper reports on the shrinking "signal-to-noise" ratio in...
Provided by Sendmail
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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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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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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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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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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
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
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
