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Emerging Trends in Fighting Spam | 26/03/08 | Symantec |
| Spam has been a serious problem for email administrators and users alike for more than five years, growing from one in six emails in 2002 to approximately three out of four emails today. This white paper focuses on the problems caused by image spam, as well as other spammer techniques for delivering content through existing spam-blocking defenses. The paper also discusses Symantecs approach to solving the problem of image spam, botnets and other threats. | sponsored by![]() |
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The Carbon Footprint of Email Spam Report | 2009-03-01 | McAfee |
| All email users throughout the world, including consumers and businesses, struggle with the scourge of spam email. The costs and risks associated with spam have been well documented and have led to attempts by both government and private industry to curtail spam, notably the United States legislature's CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and proposals ranging from large email providers banding together to implement sender authentication systems to pay-to-send models. This white paper uses the ICF analysis to make a compelling argument for stopping spam at its source as well investing in state-of-the-art spam filtering technology, which not only saves time and money but can pay off in big dividends to the planet by reducing the carbon footprint of email spam.
Tags: Internet and Web, Intrusion - Tampering |
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Application of Refined LSA and MD5 Algorithms in Spam Filtering | 2009-03-01 | Academy Publisher |
| The paper proposes a spam filtering method that uses integrated and refined Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) and Message-Digest Algorithm 5 (MD5) algorithms to address a series of universal problems in spam filtering, including remarkably lowered filtering precision and notably unbalanced filtering efficiency as a result of lack of latent semantic analysis of mail contents. In introducing LSA, its weighting function is improved by integrating fuzzy membership to improve effectiveness of LSA in processing mail contents. On top of this, MD5 algorithm is used to generate "E-mail fingerprint", thus enabling quick matching and realizing highly efficient and accurate processing of mass-mailing spam. The result of the simulation experiment testifies effectiveness of the method.
Tags: Internet and Web, Intrusion - Tampering |
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Choosing the Right Email Security Deployment | 2009-03-01 | Cisco Systems |
| Enterprises of all sizes face the same daunting challenges - increasing mail volumes and new, evolving threats. The Cisco IronPort Email Security services portfolio provides customers superior choice of deployment models built on the solid foundation of industry-leading email security technology that protects 40 percent of Fortune 1000 companies from inbound threats and outbound data loss possibilities. Today's email-borne threats consist of viruses, spam, false positives, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, spyware, phishing (fraud), regulatory compliance violations, data loss and more. Cisco IronPort Email Security addresses the issues faced by corporations, both large and small, by incorporating preventive and reactive security measures that are easy to deploy and manage.
Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering |
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Compliance Rules: Best Practices for Cost-Effective, Comprehensive Compliance | 2009-02-17 | MessageLabs, now part of Symantec |
| Unmanaged email and other ESI can trigger financial, productivity, and legal nightmares should your organization one day find itself embroiled in a workplace lawsuit. Best practices call for a proactive approach to email management. Combine written content, usage, and retention policies with a Hosted Managed Email Archiving Service to ensure your organization's ability to preserve, locate, and produce legally valid email evidence.
Tags: Data Infrastructure, User Satisfaction, Internet and Web, Office Suites |
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Spam, Spammers, and Spam Control | 2009-03-01 | Ferris Research |
| Just about anybody with an email address knows about spam and spam filters - or at least they think they do. However, it is a complex subject, with far more to it than meets the eye. This Ferris Research white paper looks at spam: what it is, how it is sent, and how it is filtered. It unravels the complexities and gives an accessible, factual overview into the scourge of spam.
Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering |
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Comparing Industry Leading Anti-Spam Services | 2009-03-01 | Cisco Systems |
| The following analysis summarizes the spam catch and false positive rates of the leading anti-spam vendors. Compiled by Opus One, an independent research firm, this report provides data to objectively compare the market's most popular anti-spam solutions. All of the anti-spam solutions tested are in Gartner's 2008 "Leaders" or "Challengers" Magic Quadrant. In total, eight vendors were evaluated over the course of fifteen months The only vendor mentioned by name is the evaluation leader: Cisco IronPort. The remaining vendor names have been obfuscated. | |||
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Measuring Campaign Performance by Using Cumulative Gain and Lift Chart | 2009-02-27 | SAS Institute |
| The primary goal of a Direct Mail marketing (DM) campaign is to send mailers to group of customers who are likely to respond. To determine the likely responders for the offer, it is a common practice to build predictive models based on past experience, using historical data. It is not unusual to evaluate the campaign performance by comparing the results with the model. In this study, lift charts and cumulative gains have been used to measure the effectiveness of several marketing campaigns for telecom strategic products. The results provide important insights into the model, as well as performance measurement. This identifies the best customers and helps improve the profitability of subsequent campaigns.
Tags: Intrusion - Tampering |
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SpamBlocker: Combining NLP and Genetic Algorithms to Improve Spam Defence Efficiency | 2009-02-23 | Universidad Carlos III Madrid |
| The problem of differentiating solicited email from spam email for millions of email users worldwide has still not been fully solved, in part due to variation in user preferences and idiosyncratic language use. Many anti-spam systems treat email text as generic and are inadaptable to individual user preferences. This paper presents an anti-spam solution which combines two computational techniques for an algorithm which applies a two-step filtering process: keyword extraction and a genetic algorithm to build a spam filter system for filtration based on user word profiles. The algorithm has been tested on a text classification task, preliminary results indicating higher performance than one-layer classification systems. It is aimed to implement the system as an email plug-in for Microsoft Outlook.
Tags: Internet and Web, Intrusion - Tampering |
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The Total Cost of Email: Putting a Price Tag on Your Email Environment | 2009-02-17 | Mimecast |
| You can't afford to ignore email archiving, security, internal policy or regulatory requirements, but can you afford to keep paying for it as multiple systems on top of your email system?
This whitepaper explores how, when you add up the full price tag for your email environment, from server to software to risk management and staff costs, it becomes clear why running everything in-house can mean you spend far more of your budget on maintenance than innovation.
Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Security Administration, Business Functions, Security Administration |
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More Job Cuts, More Spam | 2009-02-03 | |
| In the face of email threats, besides to demand that employees should not open unsolicited email messages and regularly update system patches, the focus lies on the enhance of information security level. IT decision-makers should review the company information security policy for reinforcement. For example, an email security gateway can be set up in front of the mail host as a firewall to block the entrance of email threats. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. For data loss prevention, a content filtering product can also be used to scan digital contents and record the access logs for compliance.
Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering |
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