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Controlling IP Spoofing Based DDoS Attacks Through Inter-Domain Packet Filters
Jan 2011
The Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attack is a serious threat to the legitimate use of the Internet. Prevention mechanisms are thwarted by the ability of attackers to forge, or spoof, the...
Provided by Florida State University
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White Papers
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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White Papers
RAD: Reflector Attack Defense Using Message Authentication Codes
Sep 2009
Reflector attacks are a variant of denial-of-service attacks that use unwitting, legitimate servers to flood a target. The attacker spoofs the target's address in legitimate service requests, such...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Monitor Dependent Intrusion Detection Technique for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Nov 2009
This paper presents an intrusion detection mechanism that uses collaborative efforts of the nodes in a neighborhood to detect aberrant behavior in a mobile ad hoc network. A node showing this kind...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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
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
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
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
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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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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
Firewall Policy Queries
Jun 2009
Firewalls are crucial elements in network security, and have been widely deployed in most businesses and institutions for securing private networks. The function of a firewall is to examine each...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Dimension-Independent Table-Based Firewalls
Nov 2008
A firewall matches network packets to applicable policy rules based on packet dimensions (i.e., packet fields such as source and destination IP addresses). The efficiency with which firewalls...
Provided by University of South Florida
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White Papers
On Optimal AV System Strategies Against Obfuscated Malware
May 2009
Many Anti-Virus (AV) Systems are heterogeneous compositions of components, with each component specially tuned to work on a certain class of threat. Each component may have individually tunable...
Provided by University of Louisiana
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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
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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White Papers
A Network-Worm Vaccine Architecture
Jan 2011
The ability of worms to spread at rates that effectively preclude human-directed reaction has elevated them to a first-class security threat to distributed systems. The authors present the first...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Computing on Anonymous Quantum Network
Jan 2010
This paper considers distributed computing on an anonymous quantum network, a network in which no party has a unique identifier and quantum communication and computation are available. It is...
Provided by National Institute of Informatics
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White Papers
Network-Wide Deployment of Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
Jun 2010
Traditional research efforts for scaling NIDS and NIPS systems using parallelization and hardware-assisted acceleration have largely focused on a single-vantage-point view. In this chapter, the...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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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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On Network-Error Correcting Convolutional Codes Under the BSC Edge Error Model
Jan 2010
The performance of CNECCs under the BSC edge error model has been analyzed using theoretical bounds and simulations. A sufficient upper bound on the edge cross-over probability pe has been...
Provided by Indian Institute of Science
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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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Whitepapers
Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) Based on Data Mining
Jan 2013
With the tremendous growth in information technology, network security is one of the challenging issue and so as Intrusion Detection System (IDS). IDS are an essential component of the network to...
Provided by IJESIT
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Whitepapers
Tapas: Design, Implementation, and Usability Evaluation of a Password Manager
Dec 2012
Passwords continue to prevail on the web as the primary method for user authentication despite their well-known security and usability drawbacks. Password managers offer some improvement without...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Meteor: Seeding a Security-Enhancing Infrastructure for Multi-Market Application Ecosystems
Apr 2012
Application markets providing one-click software installation have become common to Smartphones and are emerging on desktop platforms. Until recently, each platform has had only one market;...
Provided by Carleton University
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Whitepapers
High Accuracy Attack Provenance Via Binary-Based Execution Partition
Dec 2012
An important aspect of cyber attack forensics is to understand the provenance of suspicious events, as it discloses the root cause and ramifications of cyber attacks. Traditionally, this is done...
Provided by Purdue Federal Credit Union
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Whitepapers
Precise, Scalable, and Online Request Tracing for Multi-Tier Services of Black Boxes
Sep 2011
As more and more multi-tier services are developed from commercial off-the-shelf components or heterogeneous middleware without source code available, both developers and administrators need a...
Provided by Purdue Federal Credit Union
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Whitepapers
Linking Anonymous Location Traces Through Driving Characteristics
Feb 2013
Efforts to anonymize collections of location traces have often sought to reduce re-identification risks by dividing longer traces into multiple shorter, unlinkable segments. To ensure...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Shoulder-Surfing Safe Login in a Partially Observable Attacker Model
Dec 2009
Secure login methods based on human cognitive skills can be classified into two categories based on information available to a passive attacker: the attacker fully observes the entire input and...
Provided by University of Southern Queensland
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Whitepapers
Paying for Piracy? an Analysis of One-Click Hosters' Controversial Reward Schemes
Jun 2012
One-Click Hosters (OCHs) such as Rapid share and now defunct Mega upload are popular services where users can upload and store large files. Up loaders can then share the files with friends or make...
Provided by Northeastern University
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Whitepapers
Clickonomics: Determining the Effect of Anti-Piracy Measures for One-Click Hosting
Dec 2012
Piracy is a mass phenomenon on the Internet today. Various file sharing platforms offer free access to unauthorised copies of copyrighted works such as media content and software. Copyright...
Provided by Northeastern University
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Whitepapers
Securing Legacy Firefox Extensions With SENTINEL
Apr 2013
A poorly designed web browser extension with security vulnerability may expose the whole system to an attacker. Therefore, attacks directed at "Benign-but-buggy" extensions, as well as extensions...
Provided by Northeastern University
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Whitepapers
Learning Is Change in Knowledge: Knowledge-Based Security for Dynamic Policies
Apr 2012
In systems that handle confidential information, the security policy to enforce on information frequently changes: new users join the system, old users leave, and sensitivity of data changes over...
Provided by Harvard University
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Whitepapers
Protecting the Integrity of Trusted Applications in Mobile Phone Systems
Aug 2009
Mobile phones have evolved into indispensable devices that run many exciting applications that users can download from phone vendor's application stores. However, as it is not practical to fully...
Provided by John Wiley & Sons
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Whitepapers
Verifying System Integrity by Proxy
Apr 2012
Users are increasingly turning to online services, but are concerned for the safety of their personal data and critical business tasks. While secure communication protocols like TLS authenticate...
Provided by Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union
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Whitepapers
GUPT: Privacy Preserving Data Analysis Made Easy
May 2012
It is often highly valuable for organizations to have their data analyzed by external agents. However, any program that computes on potentially sensitive data risks leaking information through its...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Robust Detection of Comment Spam Using Entropy Rate
Oct 2012
In this paper, the authors design a method for blog comment spam detection using the assumption that spam is any kind of uninformative content. To measure the "Informativeness" of a set of blog...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Cut Me Some Security!
Oct 2010
Computer security is currently fraught with fine-grained access control policies, in operating systems, applications and even programming languages. This entire policy configuration means that too...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Integrity Walls: Finding Attack Surfaces From Mandatory Access Control Policies
May 2012
Adding new programs or configuration options to a system often leads to new exploits because it provides adversaries with new ways to access possible vulnerabilities. As a result, application...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
The Right Files at the Right Time
Sep 2012
Programs fetch resources, such as files, from the operating system through the process of name resolution. However, name resolution can be subverted by adversaries to redirect victim processes to...
Provided by Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union
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Whitepapers
Process Firewalls: Protecting Processes During Resource Access
Apr 2013
Processes retrieve a variety of resources from the operating system in order to execute properly, but adversaries have several ways to trick processes into retrieving resources of the adversaries'...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Attribution of Malicious Behavior
Oct 2010
Internet-connected computer systems face ongoing software attacks. Existing defensive solutions, such as intrusion detection systems, rely on the ability to identify malicious software (malware)...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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Whitepapers
Efficient Monitoring of Untrusted Kernel-Mode Execution
Dec 2010
Recent malware instances execute completely in the kernel as drivers; they do not contain any user-level malicious processes. This design evades the system call monitoring used by many software...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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Whitepapers
Statistical Techniques in Anomaly Intrusion Detection System
Nov 2012
In this paper, the authors analyze an anomaly based Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for outlier detection in hardware profile using statistical techniques: Chi-square distribution, Gaussian...
Provided by International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Technology (IJAET)
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Whitepapers
Hamming Distance Based Compression Techniques With Security
Nov 2012
The proposed algorithm suggests a lossless data compression with security. Input Bit stream is divided into a group of 8-bits each .Encoder deviate the available Randomly generated key according...
Provided by International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Technology (IJAET)
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Whitepapers
Detection of Anomalies From Dataset Using Distributed Methods
May 2013
Detection of anomalies has been an ergonomic way to attention in many application and research area. This paper includes with the detection of network intrusion, malware detection, biological...
Provided by International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Technology (IJAET)
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Whitepapers
Intrusion Detection in Computer Network Using Genetic Algorithm Approach: A Survey
May 2013
The intrusion detection problem is becoming a challenging task due to the proliferation of heterogeneous computer networks since the increased connectivity of computer systems gives greater access...
Provided by International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Technology (IJAET)
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Whitepapers
Collaborative Tcp Sequence Number Inference Attack - How to Crack Sequence Number Under a Second
Oct 2012
In this paper, the authors discover a new class of unknown side channels "Sequence-number-dependent" host packet counters - that exist in Linux/Android and BSD/Mac OS to enable TCP sequence number...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Discovery and Resolution of Anomalies in Web Access Control Policies
Dec 2012
Emerging computing technologies such as Web services, service-oriented architecture, and cloud computing has enabled them to perform business services more efficiently and effectively. However,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Formal Analysis of Information Card Federated Identity-Management Protocol
Jan 2013
Information Card (InfoCard) is a user-centric identity management meta-system. It has been accepted as a standard of OASIS Identity Meta-system Interoperability Technical Committee. However, there...
Provided by Wuhan Institute of Technology Network and Information Center
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Whitepapers
Efficient Identity-Committable Signature and Group-Oriented Ring Signature Schemes
May 2008
The identity of "Deep Throat", a pseudonym of the information source in the Watergate scandal, remained mysterious for more than three decades. In 2005, an ex-FBI official claimed that he was the...
Provided by National Chiao Tung University
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Whitepapers
Implementing RNA-FINNT in Ideal Password Authentication Scheme Results in Fortification of Transport Layer Security Protocol
Dec 2012
Mutual Authentication in the multi server environment of an organization, done at the transport layer, becomes complex when communication is done over the public link. Secure Shell protocol is the...
Provided by Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors
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Whitepapers
A Model Proposed for Reducing the False Positive Alarm Rate Using the Feature of Event Correlation
Aug 2012
As the network based computer system plays an important role in modern society they have become target of the people enemies and criminals. Therefore, the authors need to find the best possible...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
A Study of TORDES With Other Symmetric Key Algorithms
Dec 2012
For secure communication over computer network, data can be protected by the method of encryption (Stallings, 2007). Encryption converts original text data by using some encryption algorithm with...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
A Study of Risk Management of an Information System by Assessing Threat, Vulnerability and Countermeasure
Dec 2012
Countermeasure is a way to plan ahead to secure an information system. However, it cannot be assured total protection against all threats. An essential part of any risk management plan is to...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
Securing Iris Templates Using Double Encryption Method
Nov 2012
The important aspect of all verification system is authentication and security. This aspect necessitates the development of a method that ensures user security and privacy. The traditional methods...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
Intruder Proof and Authenticated Cryptography
Oct 2012
Cryptography is a method of storing and transmitting data in a form that only those it is intended for can read and process. It is a science of protecting information by encoding it into an...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
Verme: Worm Containment in Overlay Networks
Apr 2009
Topological worms, such as those that propagate by following links in an overlay network, have the potential to spread faster than traditional random scanning worms because they have knowledge of...
Provided by Technical University of Kosice
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Whitepapers
New Variant M-Rsa Cryptosystem With One Public Key and Two Private Keys
Jan 2013
In this paper, the authors present the design, develop and analyzed outputs of their threshold public key cryptosystem viz M (Multi Prime)-RSA cryptosystem with one public key and two private...
Provided by IRJCSEA
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Whitepapers
User Profile Base Email Filter for Spam Mail
Apr 2013
E-mail is probably the most convenient method of transferring messages electronically from one person to another, emerging from and going to any part of the world. Important features of E-mail...
Provided by IRJCSEA
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Whitepapers
Malware Classification Through HEX Conversion and Mining
Apr 2013
The malicious codes are normally referred as malware. Systems are vulnerable to the traditional attacks, and attackers continue to find new ways around existing protection mechanisms in order to...
Provided by IRJCSEA
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Whitepapers
An Analysis of Honeypots With Special Reference to Honeyd
Mar 2013
It's a herculean task for system administrators and normal web users to patch up their computers and keep all the software up to date. And in the case of Zero Day attacks there is very little...
Provided by IRJCSEA
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White Papers
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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White Papers
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
-
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
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
-
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
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
Firewall Policy Queries
Jun 2009
Firewalls are crucial elements in network security, and have been widely deployed in most businesses and institutions for securing private networks. The function of a firewall is to examine each...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Dimension-Independent Table-Based Firewalls
Nov 2008
A firewall matches network packets to applicable policy rules based on packet dimensions (i.e., packet fields such as source and destination IP addresses). The efficiency with which firewalls...
Provided by University of South Florida
-
White Papers
On Optimal AV System Strategies Against Obfuscated Malware
May 2009
Many Anti-Virus (AV) Systems are heterogeneous compositions of components, with each component specially tuned to work on a certain class of threat. Each component may have individually tunable...
Provided by University of Louisiana
-
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
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
A Network-Worm Vaccine Architecture
Jan 2011
The ability of worms to spread at rates that effectively preclude human-directed reaction has elevated them to a first-class security threat to distributed systems. The authors present the first...
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
Computing on Anonymous Quantum Network
Jan 2010
This paper considers distributed computing on an anonymous quantum network, a network in which no party has a unique identifier and quantum communication and computation are available. It is...
Provided by National Institute of Informatics
-
White Papers
Network-Wide Deployment of Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
Jun 2010
Traditional research efforts for scaling NIDS and NIPS systems using parallelization and hardware-assisted acceleration have largely focused on a single-vantage-point view. In this chapter, the...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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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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On Network-Error Correcting Convolutional Codes Under the BSC Edge Error Model
Jan 2010
The performance of CNECCs under the BSC edge error model has been analyzed using theoretical bounds and simulations. A sufficient upper bound on the edge cross-over probability pe has been...
Provided by Indian Institute of Science
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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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Rational authentication protocols
Feb 2011
The authors use ideas from game theory to transform two families of authentication protocols so that even an intruder attacks a protocol, its payoff will still be lower than when it does not. This...
Provided by Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS)
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BCE: Extracting Botnet Commands From Bot Executables
Feb 2010
Botnets are a major threat to the security of computer systems and the Internet. An increasing number of individual Internet sites have been compromised by attacks from all across the world to...
Provided by University of Wisconsin System
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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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Secure Event Dissemination in Publish-Subscribe Networks
Jan 2011
Content-based publish-subscribe (pub-sub) systems are an emerging paradigm for building large-scale information delivery systems. Secure event dissemination in a pub-sub network refers to secure...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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A General Model of Probabilistic Packet Marking for IP Traceback
Mar 2008
In this paper, the authors model Probabilistic Packet Marking (PPM) schemes for IP traceback as an identification problem of a large number of markers. Each potential marker is associated with a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Anonymous Traceback of Network Data Packets
Mar 2011
Since its early days, the Internet has witnessed not only a phenomenal growth, but also various security attacks, some even designed to cause large-scale service disruptions often for extended...
Provided by Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Rennes
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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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Robust and Scalable Trust Management for Collaborative Intrusion Detection
Sep 2008
The accuracy of detecting intrusions within an Intrusion Detection Network (IDN) depends on the efficiency of collaboration between the peer Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSes) as well as the...
Provided by University of Waterloo
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Vortex: Enabling Cooperative Selective Wormholing for Network Security Systems
Jul 2007
The authors present a novel approach to remote traffic aggregation for Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) called Cooperative Selective Wormholing (CSW). The approach works by selectively...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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