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Spam messages are an increasing threat to mobile communication. Several mitigation techniques have been proposed, including white and black listing, challenge-response and content-based filtering. However, none are perfect and it makes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-08-19 Ji Won Yoon , Hyoungshick Kim , Jun Ho Huh

The security evaluation for Mail Distribution Systems focuses on certification and reliability of sensitive data between mail servers. The need to certify the information conveyed is a result of known weaknesses in the simple mail transfer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Antonis S. Rizopoulos , Dimitrios N. Kallergis , George N. Prezerakos

E-commerce is the fastest-growing segment of the economy. Online reviews play a crucial role in helping consumers evaluate and compare products and services. As a result, fake reviews (opinion spam) are becoming more prevalent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Kiril Danilchenko , Michael Segal , Dan Vilenchik

Search engine became omnipresent means for ingoing to the web. Spamming Search engine is the technique to deceiving the ranking in search engine and it inflates the ranking. Web spammers have taken advantage of the vulnerability of link…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-01-04 S. K. Jayanthi , S. Sasikala

Computer generated academic papers have been used to expose a lack of thorough human review at several computer science conferences. We assess the problem of classifying such documents. After identifying and evaluating several quantifiable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-08-05 Allen Lavoie , Mukkai Krishnamoorthy

Spam messes up user's inbox, consumes network resources and spread worms and viruses. Spam is flooding of unsolicited, unwanted e mail. Spam in blogs is called blog spam or comment spam.It is done by posting comments or flooding spams to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-11-16 Dhinaharan Nagamalai , Beatrice Cynthia Dhinakaran , Jae Kwang Lee

Contemporary e-mail services have high availability expectations from the customers and are resource-strained because of the high-volume throughput and spam attacks. Deep Machine Learning architectures, which are resource hungry and require…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Stanislav Selitskiy

To date, most studies on spam have focused only on the spamming phase of the spam cycle and have ignored the harvesting phase, which consists of the mass acquisition of email addresses. It has been observed that spammers conceal their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-02 Kevin S. Xu , Mark Kliger , Yilun Chen , Peter J. Woolf , Alfred O. Hero

Almost all of us have multiple cyberspace identities, and these {\em cyber}alter egos are networked together to form a vast cyberspace social network. This network is distinct from the world-wide-web (WWW), which is being queried and mined…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-01-05 Joseph S. Kong , P. Oscar Boykin , Behnam A. Rezaei , Nima Sarshar , Vwani P. Roychowdhury

We provide an automated graph theoretic method for identifying individual users' trusted networks of friends in cyberspace. We routinely use our social networks to judge the trustworthiness of outsiders, i.e., to decide where to buy our…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-09-29 P. Oscar Boykin , Vwani Roychowdhury

Spam pages are designed to maliciously appear among the top search results by excessive usage of popular terms. Therefore, spam pages should be removed using an effective and efficient spam detection system. Previous methods for web spam…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-07-25 Ali Hadian , Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli

This article is inspired by video classification technology. If the user behavior subspace is viewed as a frame image, consecutive frame images are viewed as a video. Following this novel idea, a model for spammer detection based on user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Haoyang Zhang , Zhou Yang , Yucai Pang

Short Message Service (SMS) spam is a serious problem in Vietnam because of the availability of very cheap pre-paid SMS packages. There are some systems to detect and filter spam messages for English, most of which use machine learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Thai-Hoang Pham , Phuong Le-Hong

Email tracking allows email senders to collect fine-grained behavior and location data on email recipients, who are uniquely identifiable via their email address. Such tracking invades user privacy in that email tracking techniques gather…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Johannes Haupt , Benedict Bender , Benjamin Fabian , Stefan Lessmann

Like other social media websites, YouTube is not immune from the attention of spammers. In particular, evidence can be found of attempts to attract users to malicious third-party websites. As this type of spam is often associated with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-02-24 Derek O'Callaghan , Martin Harrigan , Joe Carthy , Pádraig Cunningham

This paper describes a set of comparative experiments for the problem of automatically filtering unwanted electronic mail messages. Several variants of the AdaBoost algorithm with confidence-rated predictions [Schapire & Singer, 99] have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Xavier Carreras , Lluis Marquez

The battle between email service providers and senders of mass unsolicited emails (Spam) continues to gain traction. Vast numbers of Spam emails are sent mainly from automatic botnets distributed over the world. One method for mitigating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Eitan Menahem , Rami Puzis

Spam emails are unsolicited, annoying and sometimes harmful messages which may contain malware, phishing or hoaxes. Unlike most studies that address the design of efficient anti-spam filters, we approach the spam email problem from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 F. Janez-Martino , R. Alaiz-Rodriguez , V. Gonzalez-Castro , E. Fidalgo , E. Alegre

We study the problem of identifying botnets and the IP addresses which they comprise, based on the observation of a fraction of the global email spam traffic. Observed mailing campaigns constitute evidence for joint botnet membership, they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Peter Haider , Tobias Scheffer

Identifying threats in a network traffic flow which is encrypted is uniquely challenging. On one hand it is extremely difficult to simply decrypt the traffic due to modern encryption algorithms. On the other hand, passing such an encrypted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Syed Muhammad Kumail Raza , Juan Caballero