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White Papers
Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion
Oct 2008
Spam-based marketing is a curious beast. All receives the advertisements - " Excellent Hardness is Easy!" - but few of them have encountered a person who admits to following through on this offer...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Marshal8e6's Defense-in-Depth Anti-Spam Engine
Mar 2009
Spam - it has become the email plague of the new century. In 2007, despite assurances from Bill Gates that spam would be eliminated by now, spam had its biggest year on record. The burgeoning...
Provided by Marshal8e6
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White Papers
The Cost Impact of Spam Filters: Measuring the Effect of Information System Technologies in Organizations
Oct 2008
More than 70% of global e-mail traffic consists of unsolicited and commercial direct marketing, also known as spam. Dealing with spam incurs high costs for organizations, prompting efforts to try...
Provided by University of Hamburg
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White Papers
Web Spam: A Survey With Vision for the Archivist
Aug 2008
While Web archive quality is endangered by Web spam, a side effect of the high commercial value of top-ranked search-engine results, so far Web spam filtering technologies are rarely used by Web...
Provided by MTA SZTAKI
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White Papers
NETGEAR In-The-Cloud Distributed SpamAnalysis Technology: Network Based Protection Against Email-Borne Threats
Jan 2009
Over the past few years, email has emerged as the primary vector for an array of computer threats such as spam, viruses, Trojans, and phishing attacks. With the capability to mass-mail on a global...
Provided by NETGEAR
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White Papers
ITU Study on the Financial Aspects of Network Security: Malware and Spam
Jul 2008
Malware is a summary term for different forms of malevolent software designed to infiltrate and infect computers, typically without the knowledge of the owner. During the past two decades, the...
Provided by International Telecommunication Union
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White Papers
BotMiner: Clustering Analysis of Network Traffic for Protocol- and Structure-Independent Botnet Detection
May 2008
Botnets are now the key platform for many Internet attacks, such as spam, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS), identity theft, and phishing. Most of the current botnet detection approaches work...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
The Spam-Ish Inquisition
Apr 2009
UCE is usually regarded as a subset of UBE, though it's a very considerable percentage of 'Spammy' email, and many simply use the term UCE interchangeably with 'Spam'. Bulk email such as...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
An Anti-Phishing Application for the End User
Apr 2009
Seeking sensitive user data in the form of online banking user-id and passwords or credit card information, which may then be used by 'Phishers' for their own personal gain is the primary...
Provided by Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
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White Papers
Anti-Phishing in Offense and Defense
Sep 2008
Many anti-phishing mechanisms currently focus on helping users verify whether a web site is genuine. However, usability studies have demonstrated that prevention-based approaches alone fail to...
Provided by College of William and Mary
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White Papers
Thwarting E-mail Spam Laundering
Dec 2008
Laundering e-mail spam through open-proxies or compromised PCs is a widely-used trick to conceal real spam sources and reduce spamming cost in the underground e-mail spam industry. Spammers have...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Fishing for Phishing From the Network Stream
Oct 2008
Phishing is an increasingly prevalent social-engineering attack that attempts identity theft using spoofed Web pages of legitimate organizations. Unfortunately, current phishing detection methods...
Provided by AT&T Labs-Research
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White Papers
BitDefender Lab Publishes First E-Threats Landscape Report
Jul 2008
BitDefender's security experts analyzed and examined the menaces of the first half of 2008, focusing on software vulnerabilities and exploits, different types of malware, as well as...
Provided by BITDEFENDER
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White Papers
Learning to Detect Spam: Naive-Euclidean Approach
Nov 2008
A method is proposed for learning to classify spam and non-spam emails. It combines the strategy of the Best Stepwise Feature Selection with a classifier of Euclidean nearest-neighbor. Each text...
Provided by University of Aizu
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White Papers
A Phased Framework for Countering VoIP SPAM
Nov 2008
VoIP spam will become severe problem preventing from generalization of VoIP service. For the purpose of presenting multi-leveled anti-spit framework, they divided VoIP service domain into three...
Provided by Korea Information Security Agency
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White Papers
An In-depth Analysis of Spam and Spammers
Apr 2008
Electronic mail services have become an important source of communication for millions of people all over the world. Due to this tremendous growth, there has been a significant increase in spam...
Provided by Hannam university
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White Papers
Using Visual Features for Anti-Spam Filtering
Jan 2009
Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE), also known as spam, has been a major problem on the Internet. In the past, researchers have addressed this problem as a text classification or categorization...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Temporal Correlations Between Spam and Phishing Websites
Jan 2009
To implement a phishing scam, attackers must create a fake website and send spam to attract visitors. To date, empirical research into phishing's impact has studied either the spam being sent or...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Extracting Spam Blogs With Co-Citation Clusters
Apr 2008
This paper reports the estimated number of spam blogs in order to assess their current state in the blogosphere. To extract spam blogs, they developed a traversal method among co-citation clusters...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Spam Filtering Using a Markov Random Field Model With Variable Weighting Schemas
Jan 2009
This paper presents a Markov Random Field model based approach to filter spam. Their approach examines the importance of the neighborhood relationship (MRF cliques) among words in an email message...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Stopping Spam by Extrusion Detection
Jan 2009
End users are often unaware that their systems have been compromised and are being used to send bulk unsolicited email (spam). This paper shows how automated processing of the email logs recorded...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Email Marketing Vs. SPAM: A 10-Round Smack-Down
Apr 2009
Whether they're a heavy email marketer or thinking about using email to market to prospects and customers, there are plenty of issues to consider. Top of the list is email deliverability: how many...
Provided by Infusionsoft
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White Papers
Flow-Level Characteristics of Spam and Ham
Aug 2008
Despite a large amount of effort devoted in the past years trying to limit unsolicited mail, spam is still a major global concern. Content-analysis techniques and blacklists, the most popular...
Provided by ETH Zurich
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White Papers
Spam Filtering With Several Novel Bayesian Classifiers
Nov 2008
This paper presents spam filtering with three novel bayesian classification methods: Aggregating One-Dependence Estimators (AODE), Hidden Naïve Bayes (HNB), Locally Weighted learning with Naïve...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Inside the Malicious World of Blog Comment Spam
Apr 2008
This paper describes the code, behavior and infrastructure of a blog comment spam attack. The particular blog spam attack explained here uses HTTP/javascript obfuscation and redirection to pass...
Provided by Offensive Computing
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White Papers
Spam Decisions on Gray e-Mail Using Personalized Ontologies
Mar 2009
E-mail is one of the most common communication methods among people on the Internet. However, the increase of e-mail misuse/abuse has resulted in an increasing volume of spam e-mail over recent...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Spamicity Approach to Web Spam Detection
Jan 2008
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 Simon Fraser University
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White Papers
Propagating Trust and Distrust to Demote Web Spam
Jan 2009
Web spamming describes behavior that attempts to deceive search engine's ranking algorithms. TrustRank is a recent algorithm that can combat web spam by propagating trust among web pages. However,...
Provided by Lehigh University
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White Papers
Detecting Image Spam Using Local Invariant Features and Pyramid Match Kernel
Apr 2009
Image spam is a new obfuscating method which spammers invented to more effectively bypass conventional text based spam filters. This paper extracts local invariant features of images and runs a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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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Whitepapers
Comparison Guide: Proofpoint Enterprise Vs. Google Message Security (Postini)
Sep 2012
Join the many Google Postini customers who have seamlessly migrated to Proofpoint's best-in-class email security solutions. Looking for alternatives to Google's Message Security (aka Postini)...
Provided by Proofpoint
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Whitepapers
LENS: Leveraging Social Networking and Trust to Prevent Spam Transmission
Sep 2011
In this paper, the authors introduce LENS, a novel spam protection system based on the recipient's social network, which allows correspondence within the social circle to directly pass to the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Content-Based Detection and Prevention of Spam Over IP Telephony - System Design, Prototype and First Results
Apr 2011
Spam over IP-Telephony (SPIT) may emerge as a major threat requiring effective protection mechanisms. A number of anti-SPIT frameworks have been proposed in the last years. These are mainly based...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Comparative Study of Gaussian and Nearest Mean Classifiers for Filtering Spam e-Mails
May 2012
The development of data-mining applications such as classification and clustering has shown the need for machine learning algorithms to be applied to large scale data. The paper gives an overview...
Provided by Journal of Computing
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Whitepapers
An Improved Statistical Filter for Spam Detection Combining Bayesian Method and Regression Analysis
Jun 2012
The Naive Bayesian filter is the most popular statistical filter used for email filtering. The design of the filter depends however on the training data and the word corpus used by the filter...
Provided by Kurukshetra University
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Whitepapers
Collaborative EmailSpam Filtering With the HashingTrick
Jul 2009
This paper delves into a recently proposed technique for collaborative spam filtering that facilitates personalization with finite-sized memory guarantees. In large scale open membership email...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Media Connectivity in SIP Infrastructures: Provider Awareness, Approaches, Consequences, and Applicability
Apr 2012
In SIP-based Voice over IP infrastructures, media data is usually exchanged directly between the endpoints using RTP without provider interaction. In contrast to the Public Switched Telephone...
Provided by IARIA
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Whitepapers
Improvising BayesNet Classifier Using Various Feature Reduction Method for Spam Classification
Dec 2010
In this paper, the authors have proposed an efficient approach for the reduction of significant attributes from the Spam base warehouses for identifying spam email using forward selection method...
Provided by International Journal on Computer Science and Technology (IJCST)
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Whitepapers
Collaborative Reputation-Based Voice Spam Filtering
Jun 2009
The authors propose a collaborative reputation-based voice spam filtering framework. Their approach uses the cumulative online duration of a VoIP user to derive his reputation value. And they...
Provided by Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
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Whitepapers
Accurate Spam Mail Detection Using Bayesian Algorithm
Jun 2012
With the increasing popularity of a E-mail users, E-mail spam problem growing proportionally. Spam filtering with near duplicate matching scheme is widely discussed in recent years. It is based on...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology
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Podcasts
McAfee Deep Defender video
Aug 2012
An in-depth look of how McAfee Deep Defender and DeepSAFE works with the Intel hardware features to run beyond the operating system to detect covert stealth attacks in real-time.
Provided by Intel Corporation
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Whitepapers
Deployment of Neural Network on Multi-Core Architecture
May 2012
Traditional computational methods are highly structured and linear, properties which they drive from the digital nature of computers. These methods are highly effective at solving certain classes...
Provided by IJERT - International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology
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Whitepapers
Honeypots : Fighting Against Spam
May 2012
Spam can be considered as most annoying cyber-pollution in the current scenario. Honeypots is an approach to fight against spam by information gathering and learning. First Section discusses the...
Provided by IJERT - International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology
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Whitepapers
Using Low-Interaction Honeypots to Study the Abuse of Open Proxies to Send Spam
Dec 2007
One of the main problems in creating effective mechanisms to mitigate the spam problem is the lack of more precise data on it. This paper describes the design and implementation of a...
Provided by Universidade Federal de Lavras
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Whitepapers
PIM Multicast Spam Countering Method Using Blacklist in Rendezvous Point
Feb 2008
Spam has been an annoying problem especially to Internet e-mail system nowadays. Many solutions have been deployed, but none have actually solved this problem. Various new applications based on...
Provided by Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute
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Whitepapers
E-Mail Spam Classification With Artificial Neural Network and Negative Selection Algorithm
Dec 2011
This paper apply neural network and spam model based on Negative selection algorithm for solving complex problems in spam detection. This is achieved by distinguishing spam from non-spam (self...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Communication Networks (IJCSCN)
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Whitepapers
Implementation of Personalized Email Prioritization-A Content Based Social Network Analysis
Dec 2011
Now-a-Day, Email is one of the most prevalent personal and business communication tool, but it exhibits some significant drawbacks. One of the drawback of this is the portion of e-mail is that...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Communication Networks (IJCSCN)
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Whitepapers
Exploring the Spam Arms Race to Characterize Spam Evolution
Jul 2010
Current studies on spam evolution usually extract evolution patterns and trends by analyzing historical spam message corpora. In this paper, the authors propose a novel methodology that...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Spam Detection on Twitter Using Traditional Classifiers
Sep 2011
Social networking sites have become very popular in recent years. Users use them to find new friends, updates their existing friends with their latest thoughts and activities. Among these sites,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Measuring and Fingerprinting Click-Spam in Ad Networks
Jun 2012
Advertising plays a vital role in supporting free websites and Smartphone apps. Click-spam, i.e., fraudulent or invalid clicks on online ads where the user has no actual interest in the...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Fighting Spam in Publish/Subscribe Networks Using Information Ranking
May 2010
New paradigms for the Future Internet are receiving an increased attention by the research community. The publish/subscribe paradigm is one of these and of particular interest, as it turns the...
Provided by Athens University of Economics and Business
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Whitepapers
Big Data Solutions to Enterprise Data Security Challenges
Jun 2012
Enterprises today are exposed to an ever-broadening range of IT security threats, from basic annoyances such as auto-emailed viruses, to targeted phishing-style attacks that trick employees into...
Provided by Proofpoint
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White Papers
Comparison: Email and collaboration platforms
Jun 2012
Email is indispensable — few applications are more critical to the success of a small or midsize business. From its origins as a communications tool, email has become the de facto archive of...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Domain keys Identified Mail (DKIM) for Spam Control
Dec 2009
SPAM (UBE) is email sent to groups of recipients who have not requested it or have "Opted out" of group email subscriptions and continue to receive email from the sender. So the authors devise a...
Provided by Eashwar Publications
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Case Studies
County Adopts Hybrid SaaS Email Security to Thwart Spammers
Nov 2010
Dane County challenges are to proactively secure the network against increasingly sophisticated spam attacks, minimize gateway appliance overhead, to maximize the benefits of virtualization and...
Provided by Trend Micro
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Case Studies
City Government Virtualizes Security at the Gateway
Jan 2010
The IT team for the City of Wichita has always faced the budget challenges that come with being a government organization. Their challenges were to protect the municipal government's digital...
Provided by Trend Micro
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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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Whitepapers
Why content filters can't eradicate spam
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
Considering a migration? The Quest Migration Assessment Tool evaluates Microsoft Exchange Online, Google Gmail, and Microsoft Exchange 2010, and compares features with your existing Exchange...
Provided by Dell Software
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White Papers
Stopping Spam by Extrusion Detection
Jan 2009
End users are often unaware that their systems have been compromised and are being used to send bulk unsolicited email (spam). This paper shows how automated processing of the email logs recorded...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Email Marketing Vs. SPAM: A 10-Round Smack-Down
Apr 2009
Whether they're a heavy email marketer or thinking about using email to market to prospects and customers, there are plenty of issues to consider. Top of the list is email deliverability: how many...
Provided by Infusionsoft
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White Papers
Flow-Level Characteristics of Spam and Ham
Aug 2008
Despite a large amount of effort devoted in the past years trying to limit unsolicited mail, spam is still a major global concern. Content-analysis techniques and blacklists, the most popular...
Provided by ETH Zurich
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White Papers
Spam Filtering With Several Novel Bayesian Classifiers
Nov 2008
This paper presents spam filtering with three novel bayesian classification methods: Aggregating One-Dependence Estimators (AODE), Hidden Naïve Bayes (HNB), Locally Weighted learning with Naïve...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Inside the Malicious World of Blog Comment Spam
Apr 2008
This paper describes the code, behavior and infrastructure of a blog comment spam attack. The particular blog spam attack explained here uses HTTP/javascript obfuscation and redirection to pass...
Provided by Offensive Computing
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White Papers
Spam Decisions on Gray e-Mail Using Personalized Ontologies
Mar 2009
E-mail is one of the most common communication methods among people on the Internet. However, the increase of e-mail misuse/abuse has resulted in an increasing volume of spam e-mail over recent...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Spamicity Approach to Web Spam Detection
Jan 2008
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 Simon Fraser University
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White Papers
Propagating Trust and Distrust to Demote Web Spam
Jan 2009
Web spamming describes behavior that attempts to deceive search engine's ranking algorithms. TrustRank is a recent algorithm that can combat web spam by propagating trust among web pages. However,...
Provided by Lehigh University
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White Papers
Detecting Image Spam Using Local Invariant Features and Pyramid Match Kernel
Apr 2009
Image spam is a new obfuscating method which spammers invented to more effectively bypass conventional text based spam filters. This paper extracts local invariant features of images and runs a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
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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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
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
-
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
-
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
