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Prevalence and Mitigation of Forum <endeca_term>Spamming</endeca_term>

Prevalence and Mitigation of Forum Spamming

...malicious) websites. In this paper, the authors study the prevalence of forum spamming and find that Internet users are at a high risk of encountering... Read more

25 February, 2011
Lightweight Detection of <endeca_term>Spamming</endeca_term> Botnets

Lightweight Detection of Spamming Botnets

A botnet consists of the home and office computers infected with bot malware and controlled by a botmaster. Botnets are... Read more

17 August, 2011

Kelihos botnet returns from the dead

...A once-dead botnet has been resurrected and resumed its spamming ways. The original Kelihos botnet compromised only about 41,000 computers but... Read more

3 February, 2012 by Stephen Musil

Skype denounces 'nefarious' reverse engineering

...statement that "this unauthorised use of our application for malicious activities like spamming/phishing infringes on Skype's intellectual property". "We are taking all necessary... Read more

3 June, 2011 by David Meyer

Dutch police take down Bredolab botnet

...have arrested the suspected mastermind and seized the servers behind the malware-spamming botnet, which was built in layers 'like an onion' for protection Read more

26 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner
Blocking Spam by Separating End-User Machines From Legitimate Mail Server Machines

Blocking Spam by Separating End-User Machines From Legitimate Mail Server Machines

Spamming botnets present a critical challenge in the control of spam messages due... Read more

2 September, 2011
Web Spam Detection Using Different Features

Web Spam Detection Using Different Features

Spamming is any deliberate action solely in order to boost a web page... Read more

1 July, 2011
A Unified Data Mining Solution for Authorship Analysis in Anonymous Textual Communications

A Unified Data Mining Solution for Authorship Analysis in Anonymous Textual Communications

...provides an anonymous environment for criminals to conduct malicious activities such as spamming, sending ransom e-mails, and spreading botnet malware. Often, these activities involve... Read more

8 April, 2011
Link Spam Detection Based on DBSPAMCLUST With Fuzzy C-Means Clustering

Link Spam Detection Based on DBSPAMCLUST With Fuzzy C-Means Clustering

This Search engine became omnipresent means for ingoing to the web. Spamming Search engine is the technique to deceiving the ranking in search engine... Read more

1 December, 2010
How botnets' rise foretells malware's future

How botnets' rise foretells malware's future

...by botnets began to become apparent. At the start of the decade, spamming was still largely a work-from-home occupation with large volumes of... Read more

15 October, 2010 by Rik Ferguson

Kroes attacks Dutch net-neutrality rules

...out of commercial motivation, but only in cases of security issues and spamming," Kroes told a confirmation hearing at the time. We must act on... Read more

3 October, 2011 by David Meyer

Microsoft offers $250,000 Rustock botnet bounty

...million dollars in an attempt to catch the controllers of the Rustock spamming botnet. Microsoft offered the $250,000 (£155,000) bounty for information leading... Read more

19 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner
iWeb Valet 2.4.2

iWeb Valet 2.4.2

...addresses in your iWeb pages, so bots don't get them for spamming. Add META tags to provide more information about your web pages and... Read more

22 June, 2011

Facebook bolsters user security features

...story or taking action to see a video and instead end up spamming their friends. A scam was circulating on Wednesday in which Facebook users... Read more

13 May, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Net neutrality to get close scrutiny in Europe

...out of commercial motivation, but only in cases of security issues and spamming". Soon after, though, she described the internet as "not an inherently neutral... Read more

19 April, 2011 by David Meyer

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