Catching Spam Before it Arrives: Domain specific dynamic blacklists

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 54, Issue , 2006, Pages 193-202

  Cook, Duncan ^a   Hartnett, Jacky ^a   Manderson, Kevin ^a   Scanlan, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIT LOGS; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; E-MAIL SPAM; EMAIL MESSAGES; INTERNAL NETWORK; INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEMS; IP ADDRESSS; LINUX KERNEL; MAIL SERVERS; MAIL TRANSFER AGENTS; REAL COSTS; REAL TIME; SPAMMERS;

COMPUTER SYSTEM FIREWALLS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; GRID COMPUTING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; NETWORK SECURITY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS);

EID: 84872766781     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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