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2010
ACM
14 years 15 days ago
The social honeypot project: protecting online communities from spammers
We present the conceptual framework of the Social Honeypot Project for uncovering social spammers who target online communities and initial empirical results from Twitter and MySp...
Kyumin Lee, James Caverlee, Steve Webb
SAINT
2009
IEEE
14 years 8 days ago
Analyzing the Aftermath of the McColo Shutdown
This paper examines how spam behavior was impacted by the shutdown of McColo, a service provider known for its lax security enforcement. Since the shutdown, a variety of sources h...
Steve DiBenedetto, Daniel Massey, Christos Papadop...
FLAIRS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
On Using SVM and Kolmogorov Complexity for Spam Filtering
As a side effect of e-marketing strategy the number of spam e-mails is rocketing, the time and cost needed to deal with spam as well. Spam filtering is one of the most difficult t...
Sihem Belabbes, Gilles Richard
CEAS
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Social Honeypots: Making Friends With A Spammer Near You
Social networking communities have become an important communications platform, but the popularity of these communities has also made them targets for a new breed of social spamme...
Steve Webb, James Caverlee, Calton Pu
PAKDD
2009
ACM
120views Data Mining» more  PAKDD 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Detecting Link Hijacking by Web Spammers.
Abstract. Since current search engines employ link-based ranking algorithms as an important tool to decide a ranking of sites, Web spammers are making a significant effort to man...
Masaru Kitsuregawa, Masashi Toyoda, Young-joo Chun...