• DocumentCode
    813055
  • Title

    Leveraging social networks to fight spam

  • Author

    Boykin, P. Oscar ; Roychowdhury, Vwani P.

  • Author_Institution
    Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL, USA
  • Volume
    38
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    4/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    61
  • Lastpage
    68
  • Abstract
    Social networks are useful for judging the trustworthiness of outsiders. An automated antispam tool exploits the properties of social networks to distinguish between unsolicited commercial e-mail - spam - and messages associated with people the user knows.
  • Keywords
    data privacy; social aspects of automation; unsolicited e-mail; antispam software tools; social network; spam-filtering algorithm; unsolicited e-mail; Internet; communities; e-mail; social networks; spam;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9162
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MC.2005.132
  • Filename
    1432647
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=813055