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whitepaper Emerging Trends in Fighting Spam26/03/08 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 Symantec’s approach to solving the problem of image spam, botnets and other threats.  sponsored by
whitepaper Artificial Immune System for Collaborative Spam Filtering2008-11-10 Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
  Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) use the concepts and algorithms inspired by the theory of how the human immune system works. This paper presents the design and initial evaluation of a new artificial immune system for collaborative spam filtering. Collaborative spam filtering allows for the detection of not-previously-seen spam content, by exploiting its bulkiness. Their system uses two novel and possibly advantageous techniques for collaborative spam filtering. The first novelty is local processing of the signatures created from the emails prior to deciding whether and which of the generated signatures will be exchanged with other collaborating antispam systems. This processing exploits both the email-content profiles of the users and implicit or explicit feedback from the users and it uses customized AIS algorithms.

Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Content Security at Network Perimeter2008-11-08 Panda Security
  GateDefender Performa is Panda Security's high-performance SCM appliance that protects the corporate network perimeter. It provides powerful and feature-rich perimeter protection against all types of Internetborne content threats. Thanks to its anti-malware, anti-spam, and Web filtering features, it fulfils all the security needs of network administrators - detecting and eliminating all content-based threats, removing junk mail, and protecting employees against accessing unproductive Web content. What's more, outgoing traffic Content is also scanned avoiding sensitive data leakages or involuntary sends of spam or malicious software that can affect to customers, partners, providers, etc. In addition a customized configuration of protections for every network user or group will guarantee at the same time a flexible but strict application of Corporate Security Policy.

Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper How Do I: Enable the Anti-Spam Agent in a Single Server Exchange Server Environment?2008-11-06 Microsoft
  This webcast provides a walk through on how to enable anti-spam filtering on a single server Exchange 2007 implementation.

Tags: Staff Training, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Block Evolving Spam, Secure your Network2008-11-01
  New spamming techniques are upon us - 419 spam, botnets, CAPTCHA cracking - what's next from the "bad guys"?

Spam remains the biggest email-born threat to businesses. Although most business have some type of Anti-Spam solution in place, spam continues to evolve and disguise itself in order to sneak past traditional defenses. Download this FREE whitepaper and learn about the brand new spam techniques developed by cyber criminals in 2008, the differences between traditional Anti-spam solutions and MessageLabs superior technology. Lastly see how MessageLabs can protect your business better than anyone else.

Tags: Internet and Web, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion2008-10-31 Association for Computing Machinery
  Spam-based marketing is a curious beast. All receives the advertisements - " Excellent Hardness is Easy!" - but few of them have encountered a person who admits to following through on this offer and making a purchase. And yet, the relentlessness by which such spam continually clogs Internet inboxes, despite years of energetic deployment of anti-spam technology, provides undeniable testament that spammers find their campaigns profitable. Someone is clearly buying. But how many, how often, and how much? Unraveling such questions is essential for understanding the economic support for spam and hence where any structural weaknesses may lie. Unfortunately, spammers do not file quarterly financial reports, and the underground nature of their activities makes thirdparty data gathering a challenge at best.

Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Online Spam-Blog Detection Through Blog Search2008-10-30 Association for Computing Machinery
  This paper proposes a novel post-indexing spam-blog (or splog) detection method, which capitalizes on the results returned by blog search engines. More specifically, they analyze the search results of a sequence of temporally-ordered queries returned by a blog search engine, and build and maintain blog profiles for those blogs whose posts frequently appear in the top-ranked search results. With the blog profiles, 4 splog scoring functions were evaluated using real data collected from a popular blog search engine. Their experiments show that the proposed method could effectively detect splogs with a high accuracy.

Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Leading Law Firm Solves Compliance Issue With Webroot Security SaaS2008-10-23 Webroot Software
  Founded in 1984, Watson Goepel Maledy has grown from four partners to a mixed practice firm of over 35 lawyers. The firm attributes a large part of its success to a strong customer service commitment that ensures every client - regardless of size or budget - receives first-rate legal counsel and support. Its e-mail and Web security vendor's servers were located in the U.S., making their information accessible for viewing by American authorities. Watson Goepel Maledy evaluated several services in search of one that would meet its compliance needs while also providing strong customer service, low costs and powerful anti-spam and security. The firm's staff is now able to receive critical e-mail and to locate and respond to client e-mail easily without having to filter through spam.

Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Link Variable TrustRank for Fighting Web Spam2008-10-18 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  Highly ranking position in the search engine query results can bring great benefits for websites. However, some websites use various techniques cheating search engine to increase their ranking, and thus affecting the quality of the answer provided to the user. TrustRank is a recent algorithm to combat web spam, which is based on the idea that good sites seldom point to spam sites, however, they find many spam sites can get lots of inlinks from good sites by using indecent tricks. They propose to take the variance of link structure into consideration, combining with which the ranking scores of websites are judged. As showing through experiments such a method can filter out web spam effectively.

Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Research on an Immune Mechanism Based Intelligent Spam Filter2008-10-18 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  With regard to the problem that the traditional anti-spam filter is usually incapable of recognizing unknown and mutational characters, a novel anti-spam filter based on immune mechanisms is proposed which employs multiple principles and mechanisms of the artificial immune system, such as the self tolerance, immune recognition, immune learning and immune memory. Through combining the idea of intelligent decision support system with the extension of classical rough set theory, a novel algorithm is provided for finding minimal attributes extraction and updating the attributes base. Simulation shows that this technique is able to reduce and improve the availability of the normal anti-spam systems.

Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper The Economics of Spam and the Context and Aftermath of the CAN-SPAM Act of 20032008-10-16 Inderscience Enterprises
  This paper reviews the background and the aftermath of the CAN-SPAM Act. The Act banned a variety of deceptive practices, but it also pre-empted the passage of stricter state laws that would have outlawed spam altogether. The nature of spam has changed since the passage of the Act. The most benign of the spammers have been reined in while those operating outside the law have grown ever more dangerous and malevolent.

Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering