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Whitepapers
Economics of Spam
Aug 2009
Email security threats do not discriminate. Whether you're an organization with 50 employees or a global corporation with 50,000, the reality is that spam and viruses can wreak havoc on your...
Provided by GFI Software
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Case Studies
Network Box Case Study: Jeyes
Jan 2009
Jeyes manufactures, markets, sells and distributes household cleaning and hygiene products throughout the world in more than 60 countries. The biggest threat Jeyes faced was from malicious spam...
Provided by Network Box
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Case Studies
Network Box Case Study: Hillary Blinds
Oct 2008
Hillarys Blinds is the largest manufacturer of made-to-measure window blinds in the UK and has a turnover in excess of £90 million. The challenge was using three separate security solutions but...
Provided by Network Box
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Case Studies
Sofitasa Bank Chooses Panda Security for Enterprise for Protection Against Malware
Mar 2009
With 18 years' activity, Sofitasa Bank, is a regional bank oriented to the business sector, retail banking, medium-sized companies, product and service innovation, and the best technological...
Provided by Panda Security
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Case Studies
ORDISMATIC Uses Panda Managed Email Protection to Protect Its Clients From Spam
Jun 2009
ORDISMATIC, an IT vendor of hardware and computer services, has protected one of its clients from spam with Panda Managed Email Protection. The client has 27 email mailboxes that each received an...
Provided by Panda Security
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Case Studies
Elopak Puts the Focus Back on Its Business by Reducing Spam Traffic
Nov 2009
Elopak is an international supplier of liquid food packaging and the inventors of Pure-Pak. More than 90% of the company's business occurs outside its home country of Norway. Its 2,500 employees...
Provided by Verizon
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Case Studies
M+NetMail and M+Guardian Are a Perfect Fit for Jefferson-Lewis Board of Cooperative Educational Services
Jan 2010
Acting as a central facility to provide services to its 18 component schools, BOCES's mission is to provide these services while keeping costs down. BOCES's services fall into three main groups....
Provided by Messaging Architects
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Case Studies
Millikin University Finds a Spam Solution That Matches Its High Standard of Performance
Jan 2010
Established in 1901 in Decatur, Illinois, Millikin is a private four-year university with approximately 2,200 students and 500 staff and faculty. On a daily basis, the institution's email system...
Provided by Messaging Architects
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Case Studies
City of 's-Hertogenbosch, a Leading Centre of Industry, Education, Administration and Culture in the Netherlands, Ensures Uninterrupted Collaboration With M+Guardian
Jan 2010
Colloquially known as the city of Den Bosch, the municipality's official name of 's-Hertogenbosch's is a contraction of the Dutch "Des Hertogen bosch" ("The Duke's forest") referring to Henry I,...
Provided by Messaging Architects
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Case Studies
Ensuring Superior Protection of the Email Infrastructure and Minimum IT Overhead for the City of Casa Grande, AZ
Jan 2010
Founded in 1879, Casa Grande synthesizes the amenities of a modern city with the heritage and values of a traditional community. The City of Casa Grande Information Technology Department supports...
Provided by Messaging Architects
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Case Studies
Providing Superior Protection and Securing the City's GroupWise Environment
Jan 2010
For the past 3 years City of Jackson, TN, has been using Messaging Architects' cutting-edge anti-spam technology to ensure a secure environment and high availability of their collaboration system....
Provided by Messaging Architects
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Case Studies
Providing Maximum Email Protection at Chabot-Las Positas Community College District
Jan 2010
The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District consists of 2 autonomous colleges in Hayward and Livermore California as well as a district office in Pleasanton. The Chabot-Las Positas Community...
Provided by Messaging Architects
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Case Studies
M+Guardian Keeps the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University Spam and Virus-Free
Jan 2010
Veterinary science has been part of MSU's curriculum since the institution's founding in 1855. In 1910, the College of Veterinary Medicine was formally established as a four-year, degree-granting...
Provided by Messaging Architects
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Case Studies
South Antonio Independent School District Uses M+Guardian and M+Archive to Secure and Manage Their Email Archives
Jan 2010
The South San Antonio Independent School District encompasses 21 square miles in the south and southwest portion of San Antonio. The relationship between South San Antonio ISD and Messaging...
Provided by Messaging Architects
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Case Studies
Clearswift's Injects Security and Stability Into Towergate Partnership's Email System
Aug 2009
Towergate partnership is the largest and fastest growing independent insurance organization in the UK, controlling in excess of £1.25bn of gross written premium. The challenge was to reduce levels...
Provided by Clearswift
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Whitepapers
The realities of web security
Feb 2010
The web has become a prime vector of attack favoured by financially motivated hackers looking to get their hands on sensitive or confidential information flowing across the internet. To better...
Provided by Bloor Research
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Case Studies
Government Increased Responsiveness by Filtering Unwanted Mail
Sep 2009
The Flemish Government oversees the education, culture, health care, and international development of the Flemish community in Belgium. With more than six million people living in the area, the...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Demand and sales funnel analytics - How forward thinking marketing organizations deliver competitive differentiators
Mar 2010
Designed for the marketing operations manager and executive, this series of Sirius Decisions research briefs focuses on the emergence of Marketing Operations and its increasing adoption of demand...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Data Driven Marketing
Oct 2009
This report examines how Organizations are using data to impact marketing performance and marketing effectiveness Example: VITAS has been using IBM Cognos TM1 for over 10 years for everything from...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Pushdo Cutwail: A Study of the Pushdo Cutwail Botnet
May 2009
The Pushdo botnet has been with around since January 20071. The botnet is also known as Pandex or Cutwail. While it does not grab as many headlines as its attention-seeking peers such as Storm or...
Provided by Trend Micro
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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
Getting the Most from Your Marketing Events: The ROI of IN-Person Seminars, Trade Shows and Webinars
Nov 2009
Do you know your numbers? If getting more high-quality leads from your marketing events spend is a top priority, then it pays to know the return on investment of your marketing events tactics....
Provided by Citrix Online
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Whitepapers
B-to-B Lead Generation: 2009 Marketing ROI Performance & Evaluation Study
Jan 2010
Download the second annual Marketing Profs Marketing ROI & Performance Evaluation Study to explore the impact of the economic downturn on lead-generation marketing, current priorities for...
Provided by Citrix Online
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Webcasts
The ROI of Marketing Events: How to Get the Most from Your Marketing Budget
Apr 2010
Do you know your numbers? If getting more high-quality leads from your marketing events spend is a top priority, then it pays to know the return on investment of your marketing events tactics....
Provided by Citrix Online
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Webcasts
SMB Super Powers - How to Succeed in 2010
Apr 2010
Even as the clouds begin to lift from the U.S. economy, marketing departments find themselves still asked to accomplish more with budgets frozen and headcounts static. In addition to managing...
Provided by Citrix Online
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Webcasts
You Had Me at Hello: Techniques to quickly catch people's attention in marketing webinars
Nov 2009
View this recorded webinar to learn how to create better beginnings for your presentations or marketing materials so that you attract attention in 30 seconds or less.
Provided by Adobe Systems
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White Papers
Router-Level Spam Filtering Using TCP Fingerprints: Architecture and Measurement-Based Evaluation
Jul 2009
Email spam has become costly and difficult to manage in recent years. Many of the mechanisms used for controlling spam are located at local SMTP servers and end-host machines. These mechanisms can...
Provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison
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White Papers
Learning the Switching Rate by Discretising Bernoulli Sources Online Phishing Pages
Apr 2009
The expert tracking algorithm Fixed-Share depends on a parameter, called the switching rate. The switching rate can be learned online with regret 1 2 log T + O(1) bits. The current fastest method...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Large-Scale Automatic Classification of Phishing Pages
Dec 2009
Phishing websites, fraudulent sites that impersonate a trusted third party to gain access to private data, continue to cost Internet users over a billion dollars each year. This paper describes...
Provided by Google
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White Papers
Social Spam Detection
Apr 2009
The popularity of social bookmarking sites has made them prime targets for spammers. Many of these systems require an administrator's time and energy to manually filter or remove spam. This paper...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
iPhish: Phishing Vulnerabilities on Consumer Electronics
Mar 2008
As consumer electronic devices with embedded browsers become popular, financial institutions and online merchants set up websites to accommodate visitors using these devices. These devices range...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Lessons From a Real World Evaluation of Anti-Phishing Training
Oct 2008
Prior laboratory studies have shown that PhishGuru, an embedded training system, is an effective way to teach users to identify phishing scams. PhishGuru users are sent simulated phishing attacks...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
BogusBiter: A Transparent Protection Against Phishing Attacks
Dec 2009
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
Pharewell to Phishing
Aug 2008
The conventional wisdom has always been that users should refrain from entering their sensitive data (such as usernames, passwords, and credit card numbers) into http(or white) pages, but they can...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
Evolutionary Study of Phishing
Nov 2008
This paper studies the evolution of phishing email messages in a corpus of over 380,000 phishing messages collected from August 2006 to December 2007. The first result is a classification of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Accelerating Techniques for Rapid Mitigation of Phishing and Spam Emails
Sep 2009
Spam filters that are implemented using Naïve Bayesian learning techniques are widely deployed worldwide with email clients such as Outlook. These filters that are deployed on end user's computers...
Provided by University at Buffalo
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White Papers
Email Shape Analysis for Spam Botnet Detection
Sep 2009
Botnets have become the major sources of spamming, which generates massive unwanted traffic on networks. An effective detection mechanism can greatly mitigate the problem. This paper presents a...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Correlating Spam Activity With IP Address Characteristics
Feb 2010
It is well known that spam bots mostly utilize compromised machines with certain address characteristics, such as dynamically allocated addresses, machines in specific geographic areas and IP...
Provided by Colorado State University
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White Papers
Characterizing Comment Spam in the Blogosphere Through Content Analysis
Jan 2009
Spams are no longer limited to emails and webpages. The increasing penetration of spam in the form of comments in blogs and social networks has started becoming a nuisance and potential threat. In...
Provided by University of Memphis
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White Papers
A Combined Method for Detecting Spam Machines on a Target Network
Jul 2009
The HITS and PageRank algorithms and K-Means clustering algorithm are two main methods for detecting spam machines. In PageRank algorithm, it is proposed to calculate weights based on different...
Provided by Iran Telecommunication Research Center
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White Papers
Prevalence and Mitigation of Forum Spamming
Feb 2011
Forums on the Web are increasingly spammed by miscreants in order to attract visitors to their (often malicious) websites. In this paper, the authors study the prevalence of forum spamming and...
Provided by Indiana University
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White Papers
Message Reaper: Using Social Behavior to Reduce Malicious Activity in Networks
Feb 2008
Every communications medium can be abused for unwanted messages, e.g. email is dominated by spam messages, and Peer-To-Peer (P2P) file sharing systems have high proportions of invalid files. At...
Provided by UC Regents
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White Papers
Effectiveness and Limitations of Statistical Spam Filters
Oct 2008
Spam is not only clogging the Internet traffic by consuming a hefty amount of network bandwidth but it is also a source for e-mail born viruses, spyware, adware and Trojan Horses. It is also used...
Provided by University Of Kashmir
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White Papers
Improving Worm Detection With Artificial Neural Networks Through Feature Selection and Temporal Analysis Techniques
Jun 2009
Computer worm detection is commonly performed by antivirus software tools that rely on prior explicit knowledge of the worm's code (detection based on code signatures). The authors present an...
Provided by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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White Papers
A Mathematical Theory of Internet Security Investments Under Cyber-Insurance Coverage
Sep 2010
Internet users such as individuals and organizations are subject to different types of epidemic risks such as worms, viruses, spams, and botnets. To reduce the probability of risk, an Internet...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
Suppressing Bot Traffic With Accurate Human Attestation
Aug 2010
Human attestation is a promising technique to suppress unwanted bot traffic in the Internet. With a proof of human existence attached to the message, the receiving ends can verify whether the...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Hybrid Spam Filtering for Mobile Communication
Aug 2009
Spam messages are an increasing threat to mobile communication. Several mitigation techniques have been proposed, including white and black listing, challenge-response and content-based filtering....
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Online Active Learning Methods for Fast Label-Efficient Spam Filtering
Aug 2007
Active learning methods seek to reduce the number of labeled examples needed to train an effective classifier, and have natural appeal in spam filtering applications where trustworthy labels for...
Provided by Tufts University
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White Papers
Practical Learning From One-Sided Feedback
Aug 2007
In many data mining applications, online labeling feedback is only available for examples which were predicted to belong to the positive class. Such applications include spam filtering in the case...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
On Free Speech and Civil Discourse: Filtering Abuse in Blog Comments
Jul 2008
Internet blogs provide forums for discussions within virtual communities, allowing readers to post comments on what they read. However, such comments may contain abuse, such as personal attacks,...
Provided by Tufts University
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White Papers
Towards Robust Trust Establishment in Web-Based Social Networks With SocialTrust
Apr 2008
Web-based social networking services like the ones offered by MySpace and Facebook support the management of social relationships, connecting millions of users. MySpace alone has grown from 1...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Efficient Method for Securely Managing Passwords
Apr 2011
A password is a secret string that is used for security and authentication purposes and to provide access to a resource. Therefore it is more vulnerable to attacks such as hacking, phishing,...
Provided by JATIT
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White Papers
Machine Learning Methods for Spam E-Mail Classification
Feb 2011
The increasing volume of unsolicited bulk e-mail (also known as spam) has generated a need for reliable anti-spam filters. Machine learning techniques now days used to automatically filter the...
Provided by AIRCC
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White Papers
On the Effectiveness of Pre-Acceptance Spam Filterning
Feb 2009
Modern SMTP servers apply a variety of mechanisms to stem the volume of spam delivered to users. These techniques can be broadly classified into two categories: pre-acceptance approaches, which...
Provided by University of Wisconsin System
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White Papers
Reducing Spam Via Trustworthy Self Regulation by Email Senders
Mar 2010
This paper introduces an email sending technique, called Trustworthy Self Regulation (TSR), which enables the receiver of an email message to recognize the sending protocol that generated it. The...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
Query Based Approach Towards Spam Attacks Using Artificial Neural Network
Oct 2010
Currently, spam and scams are passive attack over the inbox which can initiated to steal some confidential information, to spread Worms, Viruses, Trojans, cookies and Sometimes they are used for...
Provided by ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior
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White Papers
Spam Detection by Stackelberg Game
Mar 2011
Many data mining applications, ranging from Spam filtering to intrusion detection, are forced with active adversaries. Adversary deliberately manipulate data in order to reduce the classifier's...
Provided by Shiraz University
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White Papers
Workload Characterization of Spam Email Filtering Systems
Jan 2010
Email systems have suffered from degraded quality of service due to rampant spam, phishing and fraudulent emails. This is partly because the classification speed of email filtering systems falls...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
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White Papers
Bayesian Based Comment Spam Defending Tool
Oct 2010
Spam messes up user's inbox, consumes network resources and spread worms and viruses. Spam is flooding of unsolicited, unwanted e mail. Spam in blogs is called blog spam or comment spam. It is...
Provided by Hannam university
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White Papers
Filtering Spam E-Mail From Mixed Arabic and English Messages: A Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques
Jan 2009
Spam is one of the main problems in emails communications. As the volume of non-english language spam increases, little work is done in this area. For example, in Arab world users receive spam...
Provided by Islamic University
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White Papers
Multi Layer Approach to Defend DDoS Attacks Caused by Spam
Oct 2010
Corporate mail services are designed to perform better than public mail services. Fast mail delivery, large size file transfer as an attachments, high level spam and virus protection, commercial...
Provided by Hannam university
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White Papers
Characterizing Spam Traffic and Spammers
Sep 2007
There is a tremendous increase in spam traffic these days. Spam messages muddle up users inbox, consume network resources, and build up DDoS attacks, spread worms and viruses. The goal is to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
An Empirical Study of Spam and Spam Vulnerable Email Accounts
Nov 2010
Spam messages muddle up users inbox, consume network resources, and build up DDoS attacks, spread malware. The goal is to present a definite figure about the characteristics of spam and spam...
Provided by Hannam university
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White Papers
Easy Impossibility Proofs for K-Set Agreement in Message Passing Systems
Mar 2011
Despite of being quite similar agreement problems, consensus and general k-set agreement require surprisingly different techniques for proving the impossibility in asynchronous systems with crash...
Provided by Nanyang Technological University
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White Papers
Semantic Email Addressing the Semantic Web Killer App?
Dec 2008
Email addresses, like telephone numbers, are opaque identifiers. They're often hard to remember, and, worse still, they change from time to time. Semantic Email Addressing (SEA) lets users send...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Leveraging Cloud Security to Weather Threatening Storms
Apr 2011
While threats to network and information security have existed since the dawn of the information age, the complexity and scale of attacks have exploded in recent years, presenting enterprises with...
Provided by Akamai Technologies
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White Papers
On the Effectiveness of Pre-Acceptance Spam Filtering
Feb 2009
Modern SMTP servers apply a variety of mechanisms to stem the volume of spam delivered to users. These techniques can be broadly classified into two categories: pre-acceptance approaches, which...
Provided by University of Wisconsin
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White Papers
The Partnerka - What Is It, and Why Should You Care?
Sep 2009
Scareware, 'Canadian Pharmacy' spam, adult sites, comment spam on forums and blogs - the authors have seen these plaguing the web and email experience over the past few years. What links them...
Provided by Sophos
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White Papers
A Study of Link Farm Distribution and Evolution Using a Time Series of Web Snapshots
Apr 2009
In this paper, the authors study the overall link-based spam structure and its evolution which would be helpful for the development of robust analysis tools and research for Web spamming as a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Looking Into the Past to Better Classify Web Spam
Apr 2009
Web spamming techniques aim to achieve undeserved rankings in search results. Research has been widely conducted on identifying such spam and neutralizing its influence. However, existing spam...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Spam and Internet Privacy
Mar 2008
As the prevalence of email use has gained popularity, the burden that junk email incurs has greatly increased. The problems that spam can cause result in more than just mere annoyance. Spam can:...
Provided by Suffolk University Law School
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White Papers
Adaptive Spam Detection Inspired by a Cross-Regulation Model of Immune Dynamics: A Study of Concept Drift
Aug 2008
This paper proposes a novel solution to spam detection inspired by a model of the adaptive immune system known as the cross regulation model. The authors report on the testing of a preliminary...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Spam Mitigation Using Spatio-Temporal Reputations From Blacklist History
Dec 2010
IP blacklists are a spam filtering tool employed by a large number of email providers. Centrally maintained and well regarded, blacklists can filter 80+% of spam without having to perform...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
SocialFilter: Collaborative Spam Mitigation Using Social Networks
Aug 2009
Spam mitigation can be broadly classified into two main approaches: centralized security infrastructures that rely on a limited number of trusted monitors to detect and report malicious traffic;...
Provided by University of California, Irvine
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White Papers
Can Network Characteristics Detect Spam Effectively in a Stand-Alone Enterprise?
Jan 2011
Previous work has shown that the network dynamics experienced by both the initial packet and an entire connection carrying an email can be leveraged to classify the email as spam or ham. In the...
Provided by Case Western Reserve University
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White Papers
A Comprehensive Approach to Image Spam Detection: From Server to Client Solution
Dec 2010
Image spam is a type of e-mail spam that embeds spam text content into graphical images to bypass traditional text-based e-mail spam filters. To effectively detect image spam, it is desirable to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Is Britney Spears Spam?
Aug 2007
The authors seek to redefine spam and the role of the spam filter in the context of Social Networking Services (SNS). SNS, such as MySpace and Facebook, are increasing in popularity. They enable...
Provided by MIT Media Laboratory
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White Papers
CUSP: Customizable and Usable Spam Filters for Detecting Phishing Emails
May 2008
Phishing attack continues to be a significant threat to the Internet users and commercial organizations worldwide causing billions of dollars in damage. A successful phishing attack depends on the...
Provided by University at Buffalo
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White Papers
Bayesian Additive Regression Trees-Based Spam Detection for Enhanced Email Privacy
Jan 2008
Spam is considered an invasion of privacy. Its changeable structures and variability raise the need for new spam classification techniques. The present study proposes using Bayesian Additive...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Zmail : Zero-Sum Free Market Control of Spam
Jan 2011
The problem of spam is a classic "Tragedy of the commons". This paper proposes the Zmail protocol as a way to preserve email as a "Free" common resource for most users, while imposing enough cost...
Provided by University of Texas at Austin (McCombs)
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Whitepapers
Demand and sales funnel analytics - How forward thinking marketing organizations deliver competitive differentiators
Mar 2010
Designed for the marketing operations manager and executive, this series of Sirius Decisions research briefs focuses on the emergence of Marketing Operations and its increasing adoption of demand...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Data Driven Marketing
Oct 2009
This report examines how Organizations are using data to impact marketing performance and marketing effectiveness Example: VITAS has been using IBM Cognos TM1 for over 10 years for everything from...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Pushdo Cutwail: A Study of the Pushdo Cutwail Botnet
May 2009
The Pushdo botnet has been with around since January 20071. The botnet is also known as Pandex or Cutwail. While it does not grab as many headlines as its attention-seeking peers such as Storm or...
Provided by Trend Micro
-
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
-
Whitepapers
Getting the Most from Your Marketing Events: The ROI of IN-Person Seminars, Trade Shows and Webinars
Nov 2009
Do you know your numbers? If getting more high-quality leads from your marketing events spend is a top priority, then it pays to know the return on investment of your marketing events tactics....
Provided by Citrix Online
-
Whitepapers
B-to-B Lead Generation: 2009 Marketing ROI Performance & Evaluation Study
Jan 2010
Download the second annual Marketing Profs Marketing ROI & Performance Evaluation Study to explore the impact of the economic downturn on lead-generation marketing, current priorities for...
Provided by Citrix Online
-
Webcasts
The ROI of Marketing Events: How to Get the Most from Your Marketing Budget
Apr 2010
Do you know your numbers? If getting more high-quality leads from your marketing events spend is a top priority, then it pays to know the return on investment of your marketing events tactics....
Provided by Citrix Online
-
Webcasts
SMB Super Powers - How to Succeed in 2010
Apr 2010
Even as the clouds begin to lift from the U.S. economy, marketing departments find themselves still asked to accomplish more with budgets frozen and headcounts static. In addition to managing...
Provided by Citrix Online
-
Webcasts
You Had Me at Hello: Techniques to quickly catch people's attention in marketing webinars
Nov 2009
View this recorded webinar to learn how to create better beginnings for your presentations or marketing materials so that you attract attention in 30 seconds or less.
Provided by Adobe Systems
-
White Papers
Router-Level Spam Filtering Using TCP Fingerprints: Architecture and Measurement-Based Evaluation
Jul 2009
Email spam has become costly and difficult to manage in recent years. Many of the mechanisms used for controlling spam are located at local SMTP servers and end-host machines. These mechanisms can...
Provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison
-
White Papers
Learning the Switching Rate by Discretising Bernoulli Sources Online Phishing Pages
Apr 2009
The expert tracking algorithm Fixed-Share depends on a parameter, called the switching rate. The switching rate can be learned online with regret 1 2 log T + O(1) bits. The current fastest method...
Provided by University of Cambridge
-
White Papers
Large-Scale Automatic Classification of Phishing Pages
Dec 2009
Phishing websites, fraudulent sites that impersonate a trusted third party to gain access to private data, continue to cost Internet users over a billion dollars each year. This paper describes...
Provided by Google
-
White Papers
Social Spam Detection
Apr 2009
The popularity of social bookmarking sites has made them prime targets for spammers. Many of these systems require an administrator's time and energy to manually filter or remove spam. This paper...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
iPhish: Phishing Vulnerabilities on Consumer Electronics
Mar 2008
As consumer electronic devices with embedded browsers become popular, financial institutions and online merchants set up websites to accommodate visitors using these devices. These devices range...
Provided by University of California
-
White Papers
Lessons From a Real World Evaluation of Anti-Phishing Training
Oct 2008
Prior laboratory studies have shown that PhishGuru, an embedded training system, is an effective way to teach users to identify phishing scams. PhishGuru users are sent simulated phishing attacks...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
-
White Papers
BogusBiter: A Transparent Protection Against Phishing Attacks
Dec 2009
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
-
White Papers
Pharewell to Phishing
Aug 2008
The conventional wisdom has always been that users should refrain from entering their sensitive data (such as usernames, passwords, and credit card numbers) into http(or white) pages, but they can...
Provided by University of Texas
-
White Papers
Evolutionary Study of Phishing
Nov 2008
This paper studies the evolution of phishing email messages in a corpus of over 380,000 phishing messages collected from August 2006 to December 2007. The first result is a classification of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Accelerating Techniques for Rapid Mitigation of Phishing and Spam Emails
Sep 2009
Spam filters that are implemented using Naïve Bayesian learning techniques are widely deployed worldwide with email clients such as Outlook. These filters that are deployed on end user's computers...
Provided by University at Buffalo
-
White Papers
Email Shape Analysis for Spam Botnet Detection
Sep 2009
Botnets have become the major sources of spamming, which generates massive unwanted traffic on networks. An effective detection mechanism can greatly mitigate the problem. This paper presents a...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Correlating Spam Activity With IP Address Characteristics
Feb 2010
It is well known that spam bots mostly utilize compromised machines with certain address characteristics, such as dynamically allocated addresses, machines in specific geographic areas and IP...
Provided by Colorado State University
-
White Papers
Characterizing Comment Spam in the Blogosphere Through Content Analysis
Jan 2009
Spams are no longer limited to emails and webpages. The increasing penetration of spam in the form of comments in blogs and social networks has started becoming a nuisance and potential threat. In...
Provided by University of Memphis
-
White Papers
A Combined Method for Detecting Spam Machines on a Target Network
Jul 2009
The HITS and PageRank algorithms and K-Means clustering algorithm are two main methods for detecting spam machines. In PageRank algorithm, it is proposed to calculate weights based on different...
Provided by Iran Telecommunication Research Center
-
White Papers
RouterLevel Spam Filtering Using TCP Fingerprints: Architecture and Measurement-Based Evaluation
Jul 2009
Email spam has become costly and difficult to manage in recent years. Many of the mechanisms used for controlling spam are located at local SMTP servers and end-host machines. These mechanisms can...
Provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison
-
White Papers
Collaborative Email-Spam Filtering With the Hashing-Trick
Jun 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 Polytechnic Institute of NYU
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White Papers
Nullification Test Collections for Web Spam and SEO
Apr 2009
Research in the area of adversarial information retrieval has been facilitated by the availability of the UK-2006/UK-2007 collections, comprising crawl data, link graph, and spam labels. However,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Improving the Efficiency of Spam Filtering Through Cache Architectures
Jul 2009
Blacklists (BLs), also called Domain Name Systembased Blackhole List (DNSBLs) are the databases of known internet addresses used by the spammers to send out the spam mails. Mail servers use these...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers
The Twittering Machine
Apr 2010
This paper is a study of the use of Twitter by automated agents, based on data sampled in July-September 2009. It discusses the dramatic rise in rapidly-tweeting automated Twitter accounts...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Capturing and engaging today's educated consumers for measurable results.
May 2010
The era of the educated consumer is here, unleashing revolutionary changes on how B2C marketers must interact with audiences. Nowhere is the new balance of dialog, education and selling more...
Provided by Aprimo
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White Papers
Using Behavior-Based Lead Nurturing Initiatives to Increase Quality
May 2010
Many B2B marketers are challenged to reach buyers at the right time and with the right message during their purchase cycle. Their demand generation efforts produce leads that they need to nurture...
Provided by Aprimo
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White Papers
Ten Steps to Effective Email Marketing
Dec 2011
There's a revolution going on in marketing today. New technologies continue to emerge. Communication channels are shifting and fragmenting. New social media channels change the rules of marketing...
Provided by Aprimo
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Whitepapers
Seven Keys to Making or Breaking Your Exchange Infrastructure
May 2010
Exchange Server 2007 changed the way your communications infrastructure operated forever, delivering a potent and powerful e-mail engine. And with Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft's upped the ante,...
Provided by Dell Software
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White Papers
Spam: Those Emails Your Company Can Do Without
Sep 2008
Unsolicited email, or spam as it is more commonly referred to, is a problem for companies because of its ability to change regularly, inundate mailboxes with useless emails, affect employee...
Provided by SpamHelp
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White Papers
Web Spam Identification Through Language Model Analysis
Mar 2009
Nowadays, Web Spam is one of the main problems of the search engines because the quality of their search results has been degraded by the methods used by spammers. During recent years there have...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Study of URL Redirection Indicating Spam
Jul 2009
The use of URL redirections has been recently studied to filter spam as email and web spammers use redirection to camouflage their web pages. However, many web sites also employ redirection for...
Provided by University of Georgia
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White Papers
The Case for Hosted Exchange
Jun 2010
If you are considering a Microsoft Exchange solution, this white paper discusses the benefits of the hosted model versus an on-premise Exchange server. A detailed review of the costs of both are...
Provided by Verio
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White Papers
The Real Cost of Free Email
Jun 2010
Learn the risks associated with using the POP and free email systems and how a hosted Microsoft Exchange solution can provide guaranteed availability and make email users in even the smallest...
Provided by Verio
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White Papers
Social Networking: The Pros, the Cons and the Solution
Jun 2010
Social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Bebo have permeated society and the workplace over recent years. Organizations are right to embrace these sites as an extra weapon...
Provided by M86 Security
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White Papers
Executive Guide to Internal Data Theft
Jun 2010
This whitepaper looks at an inescapable trend - the increasing threat of confidential data being removed from the network inside the organization through the use of removable media devices. It...
Provided by M86 Security
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White Papers
Are Bots About to Bring Down Your Business?
Jun 2010
There's some good news these days on the IT security front: Cybercriminals don't want to knock your network offline. The bad news? They want to use it for launching attacks that are more...
Provided by M86 Security
