To circumvent prevalent text-based anti-spam filters, spammers have begun embedding the advertisement text in images. Analogously, proprietary information (such as source code) ma...
Hrishikesh Aradhye, Gregory K. Myers, James A. Her...
Web spamming, the practice of introducing artificial text and links into web pages to affect the results of searches, has been recognized as a major problem for search engines. ...
This paper studies the dynamics of scam hosting infrastructure, with an emphasis on the role of fast-flux service networks. By monitoring changes in DNS records of over 350 distin...
A link farm is a set of web pages constructed to mislead the importance of target pages in search engine results by boosting their link-based ranking scores. In this paper, we int...