Exploiting machine learning to subvert your spam filter

LEET 2008 - 1st USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats: Botnets, Spyware, Worms, and More

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Nelson, Blaine ^a   Barreno, Marco ^a   Chi, Fuching Jack ^a   Joseph, Anthony D ^a   Rubinstein, Benjamin I P ^a   Saini, Udam ^a   Sutton, Charles ^a   Tygar, J D ^a   Xia, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTNET; COMPUTER VIRUSES; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EMAIL MESSAGES; SPAM FILTER; STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNING;

MACHINE LEARNING;

EID: 85084095941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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