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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
You Can SPIT, But You Can't Hide: Spammer Identification in Telephony Networks
Mar 2011
SPam over Internet Telephony (SPIT) is a new form of spam delivered using the phone network. With the low cost of Internet telephony, SPIT has become an attractive alternative for spammers to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Characterizing Botnets From Email Spam Records
Jan 2012
The authors develop new techniques to map botnet membership using traces of spam email. To group bots into botnets they look for multiple bots participating in the same spam email campaign. They...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
An Empirical Study of Behavioral Characteristics of Spammers: Findings and Implications
Apr 2011
In this paper, the authors present a detailed study of the behavioral characteristics of spammers based on a two month email trace collected at a large US university campus network. They analyze...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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Whitepapers - Video
Webinar: Erase email complexity when moving to the cloud
Mar 2012
Cloud computing has led to a revolution in the way people work. The days of being tied to a desk PC are gone: many modern workers can remotely access the email, files and data they need. They are...
Provided by Mimecast
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White Papers
Detecting Spam Bots in Online Social Networking Sites: A Machine Learning Approach
Apr 2010
As online social networking sites become more and more popular, they have also attracted the attentions of the spammers. In this paper, Twitter, a popular micro-blogging service, is studied as an...
Provided by Pennsylvania State University
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White Papers
SureMsg: A XMPP-Based Security e-Mail System
Aug 2007
The Internet e-mail service based on SMTP protocol is an important information infrastructure. Meanwhile, the instant messaging becomes an emerging Internet application. This paper presents a...
Provided by Inderscience Enterprises
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White Papers
Practical Evaluation of a Spam Prevention Architecture for IMS Networks
Jul 2008
Telecommunications technologies are advancing rapidly particularly in the field of mobile telephony. Improved network architectures will provide cheaper, more accessible mobile communication, but...
Provided by University of Cape Town
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White Papers
Partial Image Spam e-Mail Detection Using OCR
Jun 2011
Even though there a number of inbuilt e-mail filtering software associated with every e-mail service providers like Gmail, Yahoo mail they identify only text spam and image spam. As a result they...
Provided by Anna University
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White Papers
A Phishing Model and Its Applications to Evaluating Phishing Attacks
Nov 2011
Phishing is a growing threat to Internet users and causes billions of dollars in damage every year. In this paper, the authors present a theoretical yet practical model to study this threat in a...
Provided by Sam Houston State University
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White Papers
School of Phish: A Real-World Evaluation of Anti-Phishing Training
Jul 2009
PhishGuru is an embedded training system that teaches users to avoid falling for phishing attacks by delivering a training message when the user clicks on the URL in a simulated phishing email. In...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Anti-Phishing Phil: The Design and Evaluation of a Game That Teaches People Not to Fall for Phish
Jul 2007
In this paper, the authors describe the design and evaluation of Anti-Phishing Phil, an online game that teaches users good habits to help them avoid phishing attacks. They used learning science...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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Case Studies
Leading Security Software Vendor Partners With Luxoft to Test Its Flagship Products
Feb 2012
Kaspersky Lab is one of the world's largest IT security solutions providers, offering comprehensive protection against all forms of IT threats such as viruses, spyware, hackers and spam. Their...
Provided by LUXOFT
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White Papers
Trends in Combating Image Spam E-mails
Jan 2012
With the rapid adoption of Internet as an easy way to communicate, the amount of unsolicited e-mails, known as spam e-mails, has been growing rapidly. The major problem of spam e-mails is the loss...
Provided by International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology (IACSIT)
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White Papers
Measuring The Botnet Using The Second Character of Bots
Jan 2010
Botnets have become one of the most serious threats to the Internet. They are now the key platform for many Internet attacks, such as spam, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS), and the authors...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Blocking Spam by Separating End-User Machines From Legitimate Mail Server Machines
Sep 2011
Spamming botnets present a critical challenge in the control of spam messages due to the sheer volume and wide spread of the botnet members. In this paper, the authors advocate the approach for...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
3-Clique Attacks in Online Social Networks
Sep 2011
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become ubiquitous in the past few years, counting hundreds of millions of people as members. In this paper, the authors show that the ease of accessing third...
Provided by Purdue University
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White Papers
Web Spam Detection Using Different Features
Jul 2011
Spamming is any deliberate action solely in order to boost a web page's position in search engine results, incommensurate with page's real value. Web Spam is the Web pages that are the result of...
Provided by International Journal of Soft Computing and Engineering (IJSCE)
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White Papers
An Empirical Analysis of Phishing Blacklists
Jul 2009
In this paper, the authors study the effectiveness of phishing black-lists. They used 191 fresh phish that were less than 30 minutes old to conduct two tests on eight anti-phishing tool-bars. They...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Data Mining for Security and Crime Detection
Jun 2008
As the internet becomes more pervasive in all areas of human activity, attackers can use the anonymity of the cyberspace to commit crimes and compromise the IT infrastructure. As currently there...
Provided by Fraunhofer IAIS
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White Papers
Intelligent Phishing Detection System for e-Banking Using Fuzzy Data Mining
Aug 2010
Detecting and identifying any phishing websites in real-time, particularly for e-banking, is really a complex and dynamic problem involving many factors and criteria. Because of the subjective...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
An Effective Strategy for Identifying Phishing Websites Using Class-Based Approach
Dec 2011
This paper presents a novel approach to overcome the difficulty and complexity in detecting and predicting social networking phishing website. The authors proposed an intelligent resilient and...
Provided by International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research
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White Papers
Social Networks and Context-Aware Spam
Nov 2008
Social networks are popular for online communities. This paper evaluates the risk of sophisticated context-aware spam that could result from information sharing on social networks and discusses...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
PhishDef: URL Names Say It All
Mar 2011
Phishing is an increasingly sophisticated method to steal personal user information using sites that pretend to be legitimate. In this paper, the authors take the following steps to identify...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Analyzing the Aftermath of the McColo Shutdown
Apr 2009
This paper examines how spam behavior was impacted by the shutdown of Mc-Colo, a service provider known for its lax security enforcement. Since the shutdown, a variety of sources have reported...
Provided by Colorado State University
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White Papers
Link Spam Detection Based on DBSPAMCLUST With Fuzzy C-Means Clustering
Dec 2010
This Search engine became omnipresent means for ingoing to the web. Spamming Search engine is the technique to deceiving the ranking in search engine and it inflates the ranking. Web spammers have...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Whitepapers - Video
McAfee Cloud Security Platform with New Security Capabilities from Intel
Jun 2011
Scott Chasin, McAfee CTO, Content & Cloud, talks about the availability of Intel® Expressway Cloud Access 360 and Intel® Expressway Service Gateway as modules in the McAfee Cloud Security...
Provided by Intel Corporation
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White Papers
An ISP Based Notification and Detection System to Maximize Efficiency of Client Honeypots in Protection of End Users
Sep 2011
End users are increasingly vulnerable to attacks directed at web browsers which make the most of popularity of today's web services. While organizations deploy several layers of security to...
Provided by University of Canterbury
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White Papers
Techniques and Tools for Forensic Investigation of E-mail
Nov 2011
E-mail has emerged as the most important application on Internet for communication of messages, delivery of documents and carrying out of transactions and is used not only from computers but many...
Provided by University Of Kashmir
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White Papers
Spam Weeding, Detection and Filtering on P2P System
Oct 2011
Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) defines a mechanism for using digital signatures on E-Mail at the domain level, allowing the receiving domain to confirm that E-Mail came from the domain it...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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White Papers
SOAP: A Social Network Aided Personalized and Effective Spam Filter to Clean Your e-Mail Box
Mar 2011
The explosive growth of unsolicited emails has prompted the development of numerous spam filtering techniques. A Bayesian spam filter is superior to a static keyword based spam filter because it...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
STAMP: Toward Reclaiming Email Address Privacy
Apr 2008
Email has grown into one of the dominant forms of communication in the 21st century. However, email systems were designed without security in mind, thus allowing attackers to abuse the system and...
Provided by Purdue University
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White Papers
Return on Information Security Investment - The Viability of an Anti-Spam Solution in a Wireless Environment
Jan 2010
Much is said about the importance of investing in information security, but little is known on the ex-tent and effectiveness of such security programmes. A model that analyses the mechanics of an...
Provided by University of Malta
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White Papers
Classification of Textual E-Mail Spam Using Data Mining Techniques
Sep 2011
A new method for clustering of spam messages collected in bases of anti-spam system is offered. The genetic algorithm is developed for solving clustering problems. The objective function is a...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Show Me the Money: Characterizing Spam-Advertised Revenue
Jun 2011
Modern spam is ultimately driven by product sales: goods purchased by customers online. However, while this model is easy to state in the abstract, the authors' understanding of the concrete...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Automated Integration of Dedicated Hardwired IP Cores in Heterogeneous MPSoCs Designed with ESPAM
Apr 2008
This paper presents a methodology and techniques for automated integration of dedicated Hard-Wired (HW) IP cores into heterogeneous multiprocessor systems. The authors propose an IP core...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
BotCop: An Online Botnet Traffic Classifier
Jul 2009
Over the past few years botnets have differentiated themselves as the main source of malicious activities such as Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, phishing, spamming, key-logging,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Detecting Malicious Flux Service Networks Through Passive Analysis of Recursive DNS Traces
Sep 2009
In this paper, the authors propose a novel, passive approach for detecting and tracking malicious flux service networks. Their detection system is based on passive analysis of Recursive DNS (RDNS)...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Addressing SMTP-Based Mass-Mailing Activity Within Enterprise Networks
Nov 2007
Malicious mass-mailing activity on the Internet is a serious and continuing threat that includes mass-mailing worms, spam, and phishing. A mechanism commonly used to deliver such malicious mass...
Provided by Carleton University
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White Papers
Insights From the Inside: A View of Botnet Management From Infiltration
Apr 2010
Recent work has leveraged botnet infiltration techniques to track the activities of bots over time, particularly with regard to spam campaigns. Building the authors' previous success in...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Botnets: The Dark Side of Cloud Computing
Dec 2011
Botnets are based on similar principles as legitimate clouds, but serve malicious business interests. Find out more about how botnets work and the right steps after having detected infected...
Provided by Astaro
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White Papers
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
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
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
-
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
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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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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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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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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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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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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
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
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
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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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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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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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
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
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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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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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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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
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
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
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
