We present the conceptual framework of the Social Honeypot Project for uncovering social spammers who target online communities and initial empirical results from Twitter and MySp...
This paper examines how spam behavior was impacted by the shutdown of McColo, a service provider known for its lax security enforcement. Since the shutdown, a variety of sources h...
Steve DiBenedetto, Daniel Massey, Christos Papadop...
As a side effect of e-marketing strategy the number of spam e-mails is rocketing, the time and cost needed to deal with spam as well. Spam filtering is one of the most difficult t...
Social networking communities have become an important communications platform, but the popularity of these communities has also made them targets for a new breed of social spamme...
Abstract. Since current search engines employ link-based ranking algorithms as an important tool to decide a ranking of sites, Web spammers are making a significant effort to man...