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Robust PageRank and Locally Computable Spam Detection Features
White Paper Since the link structure of the web is an important element in ranking systems on search engines, web spammers widely use the link structure of the web to increase the rank of their... [01 Jul 2009]
Search Engine Link Spam: Risks, Threats, Solution
White Paper Ingenious spammers never stop creating new tricks to get their spam and its dangerous URL links past traditional defenses. Finally, you'll learn how MessageLabs delivers a proven, cost-effective solution to search engine... [18 Mar 2009]
SpamRank - Fully Automatic Link Spam Detection: Work in Progress
White Paper Spammers intend to increase the PageRank of certain spam pages by creating a large number of links pointing to them. This paper proposes a novel method based on the concept of personalized PageRank that detects pages... [14 Oct 2008]
Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam
Comment The Spamhaus Project has been collecting information on known professional spam operations for years and its weekly top 10 most-wanted list of most prolific spammers is dominated by spam gangs from Russia and eastern... [10 Dec 2007]
Phishers jump on the iPhone bandwagon
News As Apple's newest gadget starts selling in US stores, spammers are exploiting the surrounding product craze by sending emails that try to dupe recipients into thinking they have won an iPhone of their own. [03 Jul 2007]
Stock spam slumps
News Much of the remaining image-based spam is being delivered as a link rather than attachment and many spammers have retreated to traditional text-based messages, the company said. Separate research by... [22 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.09.06
Round-Up Spamhaus said on its website: "As spamming is illegal in the UK, an Illinois court ordering a British organisation to stop blocking incoming Illinois spam in Britain goes contrary to UK law which orders all spammers to... [22 Sep 2006]
Microsoft to clean up web spam
News Spammers soil the web with countless links to their spam fronts in order to gain a higher ranking in search engines. Yi-Min Wang, principal researcher at Microsoft, said in an interview: "By cleaning up web search,... [14 Jul 2006]
MIT hosts spam pow-wow
News It is also one year since the implementation of Can-Spam, the federal law that sets email marketing standards and makes it less complicated for law enforcement to go after John Doe spammers. The idea is that... [29 Mar 2006]
Exposed: Dodgy domains spam message boards
News Spammers appear to have found a new target of choice for 2006 - bombarding internet message boards with unprecedented ferocity. Many of the actual sites link through to more than one established poker site. [11 Jan 2006]
Spammers exploit Iran nuclear crisis
News As Iran is threatening to resume uranium-converting operations at a nuclear facility in Isfahan, spammers are taking advantage of the situation with another bogus junk email campaign. The emails, which... [10 Aug 2005]
Devil's Advocate: How to catch a spammer
Comment One reader evidently got the impression that I was thinking of murdering spammers. But I do find that legal or simple practical mechanisms are entirely inadequate when it comes to link spamming. In a... [09 Aug 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Death to spammers?
Comment Spammers are no longer an undifferentiated group, and wiki sites attract the 'link spammers'. Now the temptation that comes my way is that when the link... [02 Aug 2005]
Ask the Lawyer: Trademark disputes and stopping spammers
Comment In other words they are not taking steps to ensure that their servers cannot be used for malicious purposes and are in fact aiding the hackers/spammers of this world. One of our UK competitors is using 'BIW' as a keyword... [27 Apr 2005]
MyDoom: The virus that changed the world
News The creation of these 'bot-net' networks represented a coming together of virus writers, spammers and organised crime. And the link has certainly proven effective. It's been exactly one year since the... [26 Jan 2005]
