Detecting known and new salting tricks in unwanted emails

5th Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, CEAS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bergholz, André ^a   Paaß, Gerhard ^a   Reichartz, Frank ^a   Strobel, Siehyun ^a   Moens, Marie Francine ^b   Witten, Brian ^c  

^a FRAUNHOFER IAIS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c SYMANTEC RESEARCH LABS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME; INTERNET;

COMPARISON TECHNIQUES; EMAIL MESSAGES; INTERNET COMMUNICATION; PHISHING; SIMULATION SYSTEMS; SPAM FILTER;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 84904802052     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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