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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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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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
MessageLabs Intelligence: October 2007--"MP3 Stock Spam Is Up...More Spammers Sent Down"
Nov 2007
Top line results of this report include: Spam - 74.5% in October (an increase of 1% since September) Viruses - One in 161.5 emails in October contained malware (a decrease of 1.4% since...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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Webcasts
Invisible Attackers: Stop the Bot
Jan 2008
Massive distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) and phishing attacks get the headlines, but invisible attackers pose a far more common threat to your network. This 60-minute TechWiseTV video on...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
BOTMAGNIFIER: Locating Spambots on the Internet
Jun 2011
Unsolicited bulk email (spam) is used by cyber-criminals to lure users into scams and to spread malware infections. Most of these unwanted messages are sent by spam botnets, which are networks of...
Provided by UC Regents
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White Papers
The Underground Economy of Spam: A Botmaster's Perspective of Coordinating Large-Scale Spam Campaigns
Mar 2011
Spam accounts for a large portion of the email exchange on the Internet. In addition to being a nuisance and a waste of costly resources, spam is used as a delivery mechanism for many criminal...
Provided by UC Regents
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White Papers
Managing Electronic Messaging and E-Discovery for Healthcare Providers
Nov 2007
As corporate messaging systems grow, enterprises struggle with the complex task of not only finding sufficient storage space, but also ensuring that they can locate relevant messages from within...
Provided by Symantec
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Case Studies
Eliminating Spam in Its Tracks With Multi-Layered Solutions From Symantec
Dec 2007
At SEGA Corporation, a global amusement and game software firm, 3,000 emails an hour consisted of 70 percent spam. This huge influx was wasting staff time and slowing email servers. SEGA sought to...
Provided by Symantec
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Case Studies
Fortune 200 Firm Achieves Global Email Protection
Feb 2010
Eaton Corporation, a premier industrial manufacturer, is an industry leader in diversified power management and ranks in the Fortune 200. All of Eaton's worldwide email - inbound and outbound -...
Provided by WatchGuard Technologies
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White Papers
Stock Spam: A Classic Scam
Feb 2008
The "pump 'n' dump" stock scam has been around since the inception of stock sales. Today, however, after a series of fumbles by amateurs, serious Internet criminals are taking this scam to new...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
Tuning Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam on UltraSPARC T1 and T2 Processor-Powered Servers
Dec 2007
Electronic mail is a business-critical function in virtually every enterprise, and it is also one that is under constant attack. Well-known viruses such as Melissa, and worms like SoBig have...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Whitepapers
Defeating spam in enterprise email
Sep 2011
Enterprises should expect the onslaught of spam to continue. Botnets aren't going away. Criminal syndicates won't abandon a profitable business. In 2011 and beyond, attacks will likely become more...
Provided by Proofpoint
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White Papers
Non Intrusive Learning Patterns (NILP): The Intelligent Spam Filtering Technology of the Future
Jul 2007
Spam menace is one of the biggest issues that cripple email traffic on the Internet today. The immediate impact of spam can be measured by way of huge bandwidth loss, usage of network and computer...
Provided by MicroWorld Technologies
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White Papers
SMS or Die: What Email Marketers Need to Know About Text-Message Campaigning
Sep 2007
Like email a decade ago, SMS, which stands for Short Message Service (aka text messaging), is a powerful new way to attract consumers. Why? Because consumers are using SMS like never before....
Provided by mobileStorm
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White Papers
2008 Annual Google Communications Intelligence Report
Feb 2008
At the end of 2007, Google conducted an annual online survey of messaging professionals. The survey highlighted the major communications trends that messaging professionals faced over the past...
Provided by Google
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Webcasts
Securing Your Messaging Environment From External and Internal Threats
Feb 2008
The presenter of this webcast explains how Symantec's 8300 series appliances can help to protect the messaging infrastructure from external and internal threats. Messaging technologies have become...
Provided by Symantec
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Webcasts
Spam and SPIM: A Growing Threat to Messaging Systems
Nov 2007
Spam has been a serious problem for email administrators and users alike, growing from one in six emails in 2002 to approximately three out of four emails today. After five years of dealing with...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Mail Defense Against Spam Via a Scheme of Distributed Merit Accumulation
Jan 2009
Infringement of privacy and denial of service attacks can take various forms. Coercing unsolicited emails upon an individual or an organisation is one of those not so obvious forms. Their approach...
Provided by University of Western Sydney
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White Papers
Throttling Outgoing SPAM for Webmail Services
Jan 2009
Spam has become a serious problem of Internet, and the current defense is limited to the filters deployed at the recipient side. Little known research has been applied to reduce the volume of spam...
Provided by University of Georgia
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White Papers
From Good to Bad Ones: Making Spam Detection Easier
May 2008
Previous researches of the anti-spamming have proved that results can be greatly improved when bad seeds are used together with good ones. However, how to select bad seeds efficiently is a big...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Web Spam Detection: Link-Based and Content-Based Techniques
Dec 2007
The Web is both an excellent medium for sharing information as well as an attractive platform for delivering products and services. This platform is, to some extent, mediated by search engines in...
Provided by Yahoo
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White Papers
Fighting Web Spam
May 2008
High ranking of a Web site in search engines can be directly correlated to high revenues. This amplifies the phenomenon of Web spamming which can be defined as preparing or manipulating any...
Provided by Poznan University of Technology
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White Papers
WITCH: A New Approach to Web Spam Detection
Apr 2008
This paper presents an algorithm, witch that learns to detect spam hosts or pages on the Web. Unlike most other approaches, it simultaneously exploits the structure of the Web graph as well as...
Provided by Yahoo
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White Papers
Query-Log Mining for Detecting Polysemy and Spam
May 2008
Through their interaction with search engines, users provide implicit feedback that can be used to extract useful knowledge and improve the quality of the search process. This feedback is encoded...
Provided by University of Pisa
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White Papers
Deep Belief Networks for Spam Filtering
Oct 2008
This paper proposes a novel approach for spam filtering based on the use of Deep Belief Networks (DBNs). In contrast to conventional feedfoward neural networks having one or two hidden layers,...
Provided by University of Ioannina
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White Papers
Latent Dirichlet Allocation in Web Spam Filtering
Jan 2008
Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) (Blei, Ng, Jordan 2003) is a method in information retrieval to model the content and topics of a collection of documents. This paper applies a modification of...
Provided by MTA SZTAKI
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White Papers
Web Spam Filtering in Internet Archives
Apr 2009
While Web spam is targeted for the high commercial value of top-ranked search-engine results, Web archives observe quality deterioration and resource waste as a side effect. So far Web spam...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Web Spam Challenge Proposal for Filtering in Archives
Apr 2009
This paper proposes new tasks for a possible future Web Spam Challenge motivated by the needs of the archival community. The Web archival community consists of several relatively small...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Detection and Prevention Methods of Botnet-Generated Spam
Mar 2009
Although anti-spam measures are improving, the spam volume is increasing due to the use of Botnets. Botnets facilitate an efficient generation and guaranteed delivery of large volumes of spam....
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
Spam Image Identification Using an Artificial Neural Network
Mar 2008
This paper proposes a method for identifying image spam by training an artificial neural network. A detailed process for preprocessing spam image files is given, followed by a description on how...
Provided by University of Akron
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White Papers
Robust PageRank and Locally Computable Spam Detection Features
Apr 2008
Since the link structure of the web is an important element in ranking systems on search engines, web spammers widely use the link structure of the web to increase the rank of their pages. Various...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Online Spam-Blog Detection Through Blog Search
Oct 2008
This paper proposes a novel post-indexing spam-blog (or splog) detection method, which capitalizes on the results returned by blog search engines. More specifically, they analyze the search...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
E-Mail Spam Filtering With Local SVM Classifiers
Mar 2008
This paper describes an e-mail spam filter based on local SVM, namely on the SVM classifier trained only on a neighborhood of the message to be classified, and not on the whole training data...
Provided by University of Trento
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White Papers
Improved Spam Filtering by Extraction of Information From Text Embedded Image e-Mail
Mar 2009
The increase of image spam, a kind of spam in which the text message is embedded into an attached image to defeat spam filtering techniques, is becoming an increasingly major problem.. For nearly...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Research on an Immune Mechanism Based Intelligent Spam Filter
Oct 2008
With regard to the problem that the traditional anti-spam filter is usually incapable of recognizing unknown and mutational characters, a novel anti-spam filter based on immune mechanisms is...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Link Variable TrustRank for Fighting Web Spam
Oct 2008
Highly ranking position in the search engine query results can bring great benefits for websites. However, some websites use various techniques cheating search engine to increase their ranking,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Filtering Email Spam in the Presence of Noisy User Feedback
Apr 2008
Off late email spam filtering evaluations, such as those conducted at TREC, have shown that near-perfect filtering results are attained with a variety of machine learning methods when filters are...
Provided by Tufts University
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White Papers
Social Honeypots: Making Friends With a Spammer Near You
Apr 2008
Social networking communities have become an important communications platform, but the popularity of these communities has also made them targets for a new breed of social spammers....
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Tracking Email Reputation for Authenticated Sender Identities
Apr 2008
With the amount of unsolicited emails on the rise, domain authentication schemes have been widely deployed to identify senders. Establishing a sender's identity does not guarantee its adherence to...
Provided by University of North Carolina
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White Papers
Detecting Known and New Salting Tricks in Unwanted Emails
Apr 2008
Spam and phishing emails are not only annoying to users, but are a real threat to internet communication and web economy. The fight against unwanted emails has become a cat-and-mouse game between...
Provided by Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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White Papers
Spamming Botnets: Signatures and Characteristics
Aug 2008
This paper focuses on characterizing spamming botnets by leveraging both spam payload and spam server traffic properties. Towards this goal, it developed a spam signature generation framework...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
OSD: An Online Web Spam Detection System
May 2009
Web spam which refers to any deliberate actions bringing to selected web pages an unjustifiable favorable relevance or importance is one of the major obstacles for high quality information...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Linked Latent Dirichlet Allocation in Web Spam Filtering
Apr 2009
Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a fully generative statistical language model on the content and topics of a corpus of documents. This paper applies an extension of LDA for web spam...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Filtering SPAM in P2PSIP Communities With Web of Trust
Apr 2009
Spam is a dominant problem on email systems today. One of the reasons is the lack of infrastructure for security and trust. As Voice over IP (VoIP) communication becomes increasingly popular,...
Provided by Helsinki University of Technology
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White Papers
Distributed Quota Enforcement for Spam Control
Jan 2009
Spam, by overwhelming inboxes, has made email a less reliable medium than it was just a few years ago. Spam filters are undeniably useful but unfortunately can flag non-spam as spam. To restore...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
An Open Digest-Based Technique for Spam Detection
Jan 2009
A promising anti-spam technique consists in collecting users opinions that given email messages are spam and using this collective judgment to block message propagation to other users. To be...
Provided by Universita degli Studi di Milano
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White Papers
Email With Integrity: Reaching for Inboxes in a World of Spam
Oct 2008
Here at Oprius they've experienced Spam from almost every angle. They've experienced the frustration of receiving dozens of Spam messages every day in their own inboxes. They have implemented the...
Provided by Oprius Software
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White Papers
Web Spam Detection Using Machine Learning in Specific Domain Features
Aug 2008
In the last few years, as Internet usage becomes the main artery of the life's daily activities, the problem of spam becomes very serious for internet community. Spam pages form a real threat for...
Provided by Dynamic Publishers
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White Papers
A Differentiated Message Delivery Architecture to Control Spam
Jan 2009
Unsolicited bulk electronic mail (spam) is increasingly plaguing the Internet Email system and deteriorating its value as a convenient communication tools. This paper argues that the difficulties...
Provided by Florida State University
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White Papers
SpamBlocker: Combining NLP and Genetic Algorithms to Improve Spam Defence Efficiency
Feb 2009
The problem of differentiating solicited email from spam email for millions of email users worldwide has still not been fully solved, in part due to variation in user preferences and idiosyncratic...
Provided by Universidad Carlos III Madrid
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White Papers
Spamcraft: An Inside Look at Spam Campaign Orchestration
Apr 2009
This paper has presented a detailed study of spam campaign orchestration as observed in the wild. Their investigation was enabled by a long-term infiltration of the Storm botnet, comprising both...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Exploring Linguistic Features for Web Spam Detection: A Preliminary Study
Apr 2008
This paper studies the usability of linguistic features in the Web spam classification task. The features were computed on two Web spam corpora: Webspam-Uk2006 and Webspam-Uk2007, they make them...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Application of Refined LSA and MD5 Algorithms in Spam Filtering
Mar 2009
The paper proposes a spam filtering method that uses integrated and refined Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) and Message-Digest Algorithm 5 (MD5) algorithms to address a series of universal problems...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Memory Management of Density-Based Spam Detector
Jan 2009
The volume of mass unsolicited electronic mail, often known as spam, has recently increased enormously and has become a serious threat to not only the Internet but also to society. A new spam...
Provided by University of Tsukuba
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White Papers
Support Vector Machines and Random Forests Modeling for Spam Senders Behavior Analysis
Dec 2008
Unwanted and malicious messages dominate Email traffic and pose a great threat to the utility of email communications. Reputation systems have been getting momentum as the solution. Such systems...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Using Language Models for Spam Detection in Social Bookmarking
Aug 2008
This paper describes the approach to the spam detection task of the 2008 ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge. Their approach focuses on the use of language models and is based on the intuitive notion...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Fighting Spam With the NeighborhoodWatch DHT
Jan 2009
This paper presents DHTBL, an anti-spam blacklist built upon a novel secure Distributed Hash Table (DHT). They show how DHTBL can be used to replace existing DNS-based Blacklists (DNSBLs) of IP...
Provided by University of Maryland
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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
-
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
-
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)
-
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
-
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
-
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
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
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
White Papers
MessageLabs Intelligence: October 2007--"MP3 Stock Spam Is Up...More Spammers Sent Down"
Nov 2007
Top line results of this report include: Spam - 74.5% in October (an increase of 1% since September) Viruses - One in 161.5 emails in October contained malware (a decrease of 1.4% since...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
-
Webcasts
Invisible Attackers: Stop the Bot
Jan 2008
Massive distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) and phishing attacks get the headlines, but invisible attackers pose a far more common threat to your network. This 60-minute TechWiseTV video on...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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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
BOTMAGNIFIER: Locating Spambots on the Internet
Jun 2011
Unsolicited bulk email (spam) is used by cyber-criminals to lure users into scams and to spread malware infections. Most of these unwanted messages are sent by spam botnets, which are networks of...
Provided by UC Regents
-
White Papers
The Underground Economy of Spam: A Botmaster's Perspective of Coordinating Large-Scale Spam Campaigns
Mar 2011
Spam accounts for a large portion of the email exchange on the Internet. In addition to being a nuisance and a waste of costly resources, spam is used as a delivery mechanism for many criminal...
Provided by UC Regents
-
White Papers
Managing Electronic Messaging and E-Discovery for Healthcare Providers
Nov 2007
As corporate messaging systems grow, enterprises struggle with the complex task of not only finding sufficient storage space, but also ensuring that they can locate relevant messages from within...
Provided by Symantec
-
Case Studies
Eliminating Spam in Its Tracks With Multi-Layered Solutions From Symantec
Dec 2007
At SEGA Corporation, a global amusement and game software firm, 3,000 emails an hour consisted of 70 percent spam. This huge influx was wasting staff time and slowing email servers. SEGA sought to...
Provided by Symantec
-
Case Studies
Fortune 200 Firm Achieves Global Email Protection
Feb 2010
Eaton Corporation, a premier industrial manufacturer, is an industry leader in diversified power management and ranks in the Fortune 200. All of Eaton's worldwide email - inbound and outbound -...
Provided by WatchGuard Technologies
-
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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White Papers
Stock Spam: A Classic Scam
Feb 2008
The "pump 'n' dump" stock scam has been around since the inception of stock sales. Today, however, after a series of fumbles by amateurs, serious Internet criminals are taking this scam to new...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
-
White Papers
Tuning Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam on UltraSPARC T1 and T2 Processor-Powered Servers
Dec 2007
Electronic mail is a business-critical function in virtually every enterprise, and it is also one that is under constant attack. Well-known viruses such as Melissa, and worms like SoBig have...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Whitepapers
Defeating spam in enterprise email
Sep 2011
Enterprises should expect the onslaught of spam to continue. Botnets aren't going away. Criminal syndicates won't abandon a profitable business. In 2011 and beyond, attacks will likely become more...
Provided by Proofpoint
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White Papers
Non Intrusive Learning Patterns (NILP): The Intelligent Spam Filtering Technology of the Future
Jul 2007
Spam menace is one of the biggest issues that cripple email traffic on the Internet today. The immediate impact of spam can be measured by way of huge bandwidth loss, usage of network and computer...
Provided by MicroWorld Technologies
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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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White Papers
SMS or Die: What Email Marketers Need to Know About Text-Message Campaigning
Sep 2007
Like email a decade ago, SMS, which stands for Short Message Service (aka text messaging), is a powerful new way to attract consumers. Why? Because consumers are using SMS like never before....
Provided by mobileStorm
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White Papers
2008 Annual Google Communications Intelligence Report
Feb 2008
At the end of 2007, Google conducted an annual online survey of messaging professionals. The survey highlighted the major communications trends that messaging professionals faced over the past...
Provided by Google
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Webcasts
Securing Your Messaging Environment From External and Internal Threats
Feb 2008
The presenter of this webcast explains how Symantec's 8300 series appliances can help to protect the messaging infrastructure from external and internal threats. Messaging technologies have become...
Provided by Symantec
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Webcasts
Spam and SPIM: A Growing Threat to Messaging Systems
Nov 2007
Spam has been a serious problem for email administrators and users alike, growing from one in six emails in 2002 to approximately three out of four emails today. After five years of dealing with...
Provided by Symantec
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Whitepapers
Stop Spam, Viruses and Spyware: Endpoint and Perimeter Malware Guide
Feb 2008
IT systems are under constant, increasingly sophisticated attack. Today's cyber criminals are using highly evolved, blended malware to access corporate and customer data at an alarming rate....
Provided by Webroot Software
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Whitepapers
State of Internet Security Report: Protecting Business Email
Mar 2008
Business dependence on email is greater than ever before and the volume of threats has spiked dramatically. For this State of Internet Security report, Webroot surveyed 1,500 email security...
Provided by Webroot Software
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Whitepapers
Gain a Competitive Advantage by Aligning Your IT Infrastructure with Business Objectives
May 2008
This paper looks at what IT Security means to your company and how services can assist in the battle against the threats.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Email Frequency: How Relevancy Tactics Changed the Rules
Apr 2008
Marketers are used to planning ahead as most media buys must be scheduled months in advance to accommodate external press time and availability, along with the careful orchestration needed to...
Provided by Listrak
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Whitepapers
What is the (Real) Threat and How to Deal With It? A Route to Security as a Service
May 2008
This paper looks at what IT Security means to your company and how services can assist in the battle against the threats.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Search Engine Link Spam: Risks, Threats, Solution
May 2008
Ingenious spammers never stop creating new tricks to get their spam and its dangerous URL links past traditional defenses. In this white paper, you'll learn about a number of these tactics, from...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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Case Studies
Educational System Cuts Spam, Millions in Costs, With Hosted E-Mail Filtering Solution
Mar 2008
The Kentucky Department of Education manages the public educational system for the state's 174 school districts. An internal IT services group, the Office of Education Technology (OET), oversees...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
SprintSecure Message Protection Fact Sheet
May 2008
SprintSecure(sm) Message Protection keeps businesses safe from potential security risks due to the explosive growth of email. Read this solution brief to see how to keep your email assets safe...
Provided by Sprint
