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Behind Phishing: An Examination of Phisher Modi Operandi
May 2008
Phishing costs Internet users billions of dollars a year. Using various data sets collected in real-time, this paper analyzes various aspects of phisher modi operandi. The authors examine the...
Provided by Indiana University
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Computer World Executive Report: The Best of Both Worlds: The Hybrid Cloud
Mar 2011
To handle the demands of modern business, CIOs must manage their internal data centers more effectively and learn how to leverage public cloud resources. The solution: a hybrid cloud strategy...
Provided by CA
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Signatures of Reputation: Towards Trust Without Identity
Jan 2011
Reputation systems have become an increasingly important tool for highlighting quality information and filtering spam within online forums. However, the dependence of a user's reputation on their...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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Understanding Forgery Properties of Spam Delivery Paths
Jun 2010
It is well known that spammers can forge the header of an email, in particular, the trace information carried in the Received: fields, as an attempt to hide the true origin of the email. Despite...
Provided by Florida State University
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Behavioral Characteristics of Spammers and Their Network Reachability Properties
Jan 2011
The majority of earlier studies on the email spam have focused on the contents of email messages so as to distinguish spam messages from legitimate ones. However, there is a growing realization in...
Provided by Florida State University
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Exploiting Machine Learning to Subvert Your Spam Filter
Apr 2008
Using statistical machine learning for making security decisions introduces new vulnerabilities in large scale systems. This paper shows how an adversary can exploit statistical machine learning,...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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Going Mini: Extreme Lightweight Spam Filters
Jun 2009
In this paper, the authors set out to determine if effective mini-filters could be trained for email spam filtering, using a drastically reduced feature set. The experimental results presented...
Provided by University of Waterloo
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Whitepapers
Data Quality: A Survival Guide to Marketing
Mar 2011
Discover the concept of data as it pertains to marketing, and particularly as it is supported by data quality functions inside of the broader EIM framework. This white paper reviews how to improve...
Provided by SAP
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Coping With Spam Using Microsoft Outlook Web Access
Feb 2010
Spam is a slang term for unsolicited commercial email. (It is not the same as SPAM, a canned meat product from the Hormel Corporation. SPAM is good, spam is bad.) If one has put the email address...
Provided by Iowa State University
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TrackBack Spam: Abuse and Prevention
Nov 2009
Contemporary blogs receive comments and TrackBacks, which result in cross-references between blogs. The authors conducted a longitudinal study of TrackBack spam, collecting and analyzing almost 10...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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On the Effectiveness of IP Reputation for Spam Filtering
Jan 2010
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 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Don't Follow Me: Spam Detection in Twitter
Apr 2010
The rapidly growing social network Twitter has been infiltrated by large amount of spam. In this paper, a spam detection prototype system is proposed to identify suspicious users on Twitter. A...
Provided by Pennsylvania State University
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Spamology: A Study of Spam Origins
Jun 2009
The rise of spam in the last decade has been staggering, with the rate of spam exceeding that of legitimate email. While conjectures exist on how spammers gain access to email addresses to spam,...
Provided by Indiana University
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A Co-Classification Framework for Detecting Web Spam and Spammers in Social Media Web Sites
Nov 2009
Social media are becoming increasingly popular and have attracted considerable attention from spammers. Using a sample of more than ninety thousand known spam Web sites, the authors found between...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Ensembles in Adversarial Classification for Spam
Nov 2009
The standard method for combating spam, either in email or on the web, is to train a classifier on manually labeled instances. As the spammers change their tactics, the performance of such...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
The Anti-Social Tagger - Detecting Spam in Social Bookmarking Systems
Apr 2008
The annotation of web sites in social bookmarking systems has become a popular way to manage and find information on the web. The community structure of such systems attracts spammers: recent post...
Provided by Universitat Kassel
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White Papers
Opinion Spam and Analysis
Feb 2008
Evaluative texts on the Web have become a valuable source of opinions on products, services, events, individuals, etc. Recently, many researchers have studied such opinion sources as product...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Predicting Web Spam With HTTP Session Information
Oct 2008
Web spam is a widely-recognized threat to the quality and security of the Web. Web spam pages pollute search engine indexes, burden Web crawlers and Web mining services, and expose users to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Discriminative Classifier Learning Approach to Image Modeling and Spam Image Identification
Aug 2007
The authors propose a discriminative classifier learning approach to image modeling for spam image identification. This paper analyzes a large number of images extracted from the SpamArchive spam...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Personalized Spam Filtering for Gray Mail
Apr 2008
Gray mail, messages that could reasonably be considered either spam or good by different email users, is a commonly observed is-sue in production spam filtering systems. In this paper the authors...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
SocialFilter: Introducing Social Trust to Collaborative Spam Mitigation
Nov 2010
This paper proposes SocialFilter, a trust-aware collaborative spam mitigation system. SocialFilter enables nodes with no email classification functionality to query the network on whether a host...
Provided by Duke University
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White Papers
Collaborative Spam Filtering With the Hashing Trick
Nov 2009
User feedback is vital to the quality of the collaborative spam filters frequently used in open membership email systems such as Yahoo Mail or Gmail. Users occasionally designate emails as spam or...
Provided by Polytechnic Institute of NYU
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White Papers
Identifying Spam Web Pages Based on Content Similarity
May 2008
The Web provides its users with abundant information. Unfortunately, when a Web search is performed, both users and search engines are faced with an annoying problem: the presences of misleading...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
A Structural, Content-Similarity Measure for Detecting Spam Documents on the Web
Aug 2009
The Web provides its users with abundant information. Unfortunately, when a Web search is performed, both users and search engines must deal with an annoying problem: the presence of spam...
Provided by Brigham Young University
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White Papers
SpamED: A Spam Email Detection Approach Based on Phrase Similarity
Jan 2011
Emails are unquestionably one of the most popular communication media these days. Not only they are fast and reliable, but also free in general. Unfortunately, a significant number of emails...
Provided by Brigham Young University
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White Papers
Spam: An Overview of Issues Concerning Commercial Electronic Mail
May 2008
Spam, also called Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) or "Junk email," aggravates many computer users. Not only can spam be a nuisance, but its cost may be passed on to consumers through higher...
Provided by Congressional Research Service
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White Papers
Better Naive Bayes Classification for High-Precision Spam Detection
Feb 2009
Email spam has become a major problem for Internet users and providers. One major obstacle to its eradication is that the potential solutions need to ensure a very low false-positive rate, which...
Provided by John Wiley & Sons
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White Papers
Privacy-Aware Collaborative Spam Filtering
Feb 2009
While the concept of collaboration provides a natural defense against massive spam e-mails directed at large numbers of recipients, designing effective collaborative anti-spam systems raises...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Partitioned Logistic Regression for Spam Filtering
Aug 2008
Naive Bayes and logistic regression perform well in different regimes. While the former is a very simple generative model which is efficient to train and performs well empirically in many...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Combining Visual and Textual Features for Filtering Spam Emails
Jun 2008
The presence of spam can seriously compromise normal user activities, forcing them to navigate through mailboxes to find the - relatively few - interesting emails. Even if a quite huge variety of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
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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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
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
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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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
An Evaluation of Naïve Bayesian Anti-Spam Filtering Techniques
Jun 2007
An efficient anti-spam filter that would block all spam, without blocking any legitimate messages is a growing need. To address this problem, this paper examines the effectiveness of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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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
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
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
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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The Forrester Wave: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q4 2009
Dec 2009
The soft economy of the past year coupled with the maturation of the email marketer is exerting positive pressure on the email marketing industry. While there is still a vast need for improvement,...
Provided by Forrester Research
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Whitepapers
The benefits of basing email and web security in the cloud
Jul 2010
Today's threat landscape is complex and no organisation is immune from security threats, no matter their size. The low upfront investment and the high level of protection that such services...
Provided by Webroot Software
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Whitepapers
Next-generation email and web security
Jul 2010
By combining email and web security controls, organisations can better protect themselves from the inbound and outbound threats that they face. This paper discusses what organisations should look...
Provided by Webroot Software
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Whitepapers
Why email and web security should be tied together
Jul 2010
Today's threat environment is increasingly complex, with hackers using sophisticated exploits that use both email and web vulnerabilities in combination to try to make their attacks more...
Provided by Webroot Software
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Challenges in Mitigating Phishing and Spam e-Mails
Jun 2009
A credible threat on the Internet that is more serious than spam is phishing. In phishing attacks, attackers use forged e-mails and Websites to appear as if they originate from legitimate...
Provided by University at Buffalo
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InterScan? Messaging Hosted Security Advanced
Oct 2008
Spam email messages are the most dreaded messages that come through one's e-mail. As each day goes by the amount of spam messages that enters a person's account doubles. With spamming comes the...
Provided by Trend Micro
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The evolution of business email - Removing the risk, complexity and cost of managing your business email
Jun 2010
Email provides the lifeblood for business communications and now, more than ever, it is crucial enterprises understand the problems associated with poor management of this. IT departments require...
Provided by Star - The Business ISP
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Symantec Protection Suite Add-On for Hosted Email Security
Mar 2010
This paper studies malware and spam as the two most harmful threats to email and IT security. While malware and spam tend to cause tremendous harm to the health and viability of IT networks, it is...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Mail-SeCure - Anti Phishing Whitepaper
Aug 2009
The aim of this paper is an effort to explain in details about importance and use of anti phishing software, Mail SeCure in the growing IT culture. With the increased use of broadband and wireless...
Provided by PineApp
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White Papers
The 10 myths of safe web browsing
Jun 2010
Are you suffering from misconceptions about safe web browsing? You might think you're being safe, but with a newly infected webpage discovered every few seconds, it's next to impossible to stay up...
Provided by Sophos
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M86 - Are Proxy Anonymizers Putting Your Enterprise in Peril?
Jun 2010
Chances are, your company deploys Web filters to fight off the threats lurking in cyberspace. And chances are, some of your employees have no trouble bypassing them. This whitepaper looks at how...
Provided by M86 Security
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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
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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 Quest Software, now a part of Dell
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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
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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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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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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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
The Anti-Social Tagger - Detecting Spam in Social Bookmarking Systems
Apr 2008
The annotation of web sites in social bookmarking systems has become a popular way to manage and find information on the web. The community structure of such systems attracts spammers: recent post...
Provided by Universitat Kassel
-
White Papers
Opinion Spam and Analysis
Feb 2008
Evaluative texts on the Web have become a valuable source of opinions on products, services, events, individuals, etc. Recently, many researchers have studied such opinion sources as product...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Predicting Web Spam With HTTP Session Information
Oct 2008
Web spam is a widely-recognized threat to the quality and security of the Web. Web spam pages pollute search engine indexes, burden Web crawlers and Web mining services, and expose users to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Discriminative Classifier Learning Approach to Image Modeling and Spam Image Identification
Aug 2007
The authors propose a discriminative classifier learning approach to image modeling for spam image identification. This paper analyzes a large number of images extracted from the SpamArchive spam...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Personalized Spam Filtering for Gray Mail
Apr 2008
Gray mail, messages that could reasonably be considered either spam or good by different email users, is a commonly observed is-sue in production spam filtering systems. In this paper the authors...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
SocialFilter: Introducing Social Trust to Collaborative Spam Mitigation
Nov 2010
This paper proposes SocialFilter, a trust-aware collaborative spam mitigation system. SocialFilter enables nodes with no email classification functionality to query the network on whether a host...
Provided by Duke University
-
White Papers
Collaborative Spam Filtering With the Hashing Trick
Nov 2009
User feedback is vital to the quality of the collaborative spam filters frequently used in open membership email systems such as Yahoo Mail or Gmail. Users occasionally designate emails as spam or...
Provided by Polytechnic Institute of NYU
-
White Papers
Identifying Spam Web Pages Based on Content Similarity
May 2008
The Web provides its users with abundant information. Unfortunately, when a Web search is performed, both users and search engines are faced with an annoying problem: the presences of misleading...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
-
White Papers
A Structural, Content-Similarity Measure for Detecting Spam Documents on the Web
Aug 2009
The Web provides its users with abundant information. Unfortunately, when a Web search is performed, both users and search engines must deal with an annoying problem: the presence of spam...
Provided by Brigham Young University
-
White Papers
SpamED: A Spam Email Detection Approach Based on Phrase Similarity
Jan 2011
Emails are unquestionably one of the most popular communication media these days. Not only they are fast and reliable, but also free in general. Unfortunately, a significant number of emails...
Provided by Brigham Young University
-
White Papers
Spam: An Overview of Issues Concerning Commercial Electronic Mail
May 2008
Spam, also called Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) or "Junk email," aggravates many computer users. Not only can spam be a nuisance, but its cost may be passed on to consumers through higher...
Provided by Congressional Research Service
-
White Papers
Better Naive Bayes Classification for High-Precision Spam Detection
Feb 2009
Email spam has become a major problem for Internet users and providers. One major obstacle to its eradication is that the potential solutions need to ensure a very low false-positive rate, which...
Provided by John Wiley & Sons
-
White Papers
Privacy-Aware Collaborative Spam Filtering
Feb 2009
While the concept of collaboration provides a natural defense against massive spam e-mails directed at large numbers of recipients, designing effective collaborative anti-spam systems raises...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Partitioned Logistic Regression for Spam Filtering
Aug 2008
Naive Bayes and logistic regression perform well in different regimes. While the former is a very simple generative model which is efficient to train and performs well empirically in many...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Combining Visual and Textual Features for Filtering Spam Emails
Jun 2008
The presence of spam can seriously compromise normal user activities, forcing them to navigate through mailboxes to find the - relatively few - interesting emails. Even if a quite huge variety of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
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)
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
White Papers
An Evaluation of Naïve Bayesian Anti-Spam Filtering Techniques
Jun 2007
An efficient anti-spam filter that would block all spam, without blocking any legitimate messages is a growing need. To address this problem, this paper examines the effectiveness of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
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
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
The Dark Side of Social Networking Communities
Jun 2007
Online social networking communities are connecting hundreds of millions of individuals across the globe and facilitating new modes of interaction. Due to their immense popularity, an important...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
