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SOAP: A Social Network Aided Personalized and Effective Spam Filter to Clean Your e-Mail Box

SOAP: A Social Network Aided Personalized and Effective Spam Filter to Clean Your e-Mail Box

The explosive growth of unsolicited emails has prompted the development of numerous spam filtering techniques. A Bayesian... Read more

27 March, 2011

Dawn raids net 14 suspects in £1m phishing theft

...are still ongoing regarding potential further arrests." The phishing gang sent out unsolicited emails with links to a fake banking website. It used a series... Read more

15 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Cookie law won't bite for a year

...authority the power to impose fines of up to £500,000 for unsolicited emails and texts. Enforcement of all the new measures, apart from the... Read more

25 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Hackers steal TripAdvisor email details

...are actively pursuing the matter with law enforcement... You may receive some unsolicited emails (spam) as a result of this incident." Customer password information is... Read more

24 March, 2011

Ofcom won't ban spam

An MP has called for action against the rise of pornographic email, but Ofcom looks set to keep well away from Internet regulation Read more

5 December, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

EU to lose billions through spam and viruses

...European email market, the group predicted that the cost to businesses of unsolicited emails and viruses is set to soar over the next few years... Read more

23 March, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Spam under fire from UK government

...on the proposals on Thursday, e-commerce minister Stephen Timms warned that unsolicited emails and text messages need to be controlled for the sake of... Read more

27 March, 2003 by Graeme Wearden

Spammers hit by government fines

...to the MIC, all six are guilty of sending large amounts of unsolicited emails to Web users, despite receiving complaints about the practice. The Korea... Read more

22 July, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

First spammers charged under new US law

...criminal complaints under the Can-Spam Act for sending out millions of unsolicited emails for weight-loss products Read more

30 April, 2004 by Matt Hines

US ruling boosts spam fight

Attempts to reduce unsolicited emails may be helped by a federal court ruling that junk faxes... Read more

24 March, 2003 by Declan McCullagh
Mail Defense Against Spam Via a Scheme of Distributed Merit Accumulation

Mail Defense Against Spam Via a Scheme of Distributed Merit Accumulation

...of privacy and denial of service attacks can take various forms. Coercing unsolicited emails upon an individual or an organisation is one of those not... Read more

1 January, 2009
The Dark Art of Spam

The Dark Art of Spam

The threat posed by unsolicited emails continues to evolve. Money laundering and malware delivery mean spam is... Read more

1 December, 2008
Content Security Network Perimieter

Content Security Network Perimieter

...are increasing in both frequency and the impact across today's enterprises. Unsolicited emails are creating major problems for all companies, either in the form... Read more

9 November, 2008
Improving Bayesian Spam Filters Using String Edit Distance Algorithm

Improving Bayesian Spam Filters Using String Edit Distance Algorithm

Unsolicited emails, known as spam, are one of the fast growing and costly... Read more

30 April, 2008
Tracking Email Reputation for Authenticated Sender Identities

Tracking Email Reputation for Authenticated Sender Identities

With the amount of unsolicited emails on the rise, domain authentication schemes have been widely deployed to... Read more

12 April, 2008

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