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CCS
2007
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Filtering spam with behavioral blacklisting
Spam filters often use the reputation of an IP address (or IP address range) to classify email senders. This approach worked well when most spam originated from senders with fix...
Anirudh Ramachandran, Nick Feamster, Santosh Vempa...
ACSAC
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Spam mitigation using spatio-temporal reputations from blacklist history
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...
Andrew G. West, Adam J. Aviv, Jian Chang, Insup Le...
CCS
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
@spam: the underground on 140 characters or less
In this work we present a characterization of spam on Twitter. We find that 8% of 25 million URLs posted to the site point to phishing, malware, and scams listed on popular blackl...
Chris Grier, Kurt Thomas, Vern Paxson, Michael Zha...
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
ECRIME
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Fighting unicode-obfuscated spam
In the last few years, obfuscation has been used more and more by spammers to make spam emails bypass filters. The standard method is to use images that look like text, since typi...
Changwei Liu, Sid Stamm