Showing posts with label spammer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spammer. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Spam tracks lead back to small number of banks

Filtering spam has not solved the problem of unsolicited junk mail, but a look at the data suggests a better solution is to focus on the financial institutions used by underground sellers.

A group of university researchers have analyzed the business of unsolicited email, or spam, and discovered new ways of attacking the market for spam that could make the activity much less profitable.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Want to Stop Junk Email? Block Payments to Spammers.

Stopping spam is an almost futile effort if the focus continues to be on spam filtering and botnet takedown, according to a research team from the University of California, San Diego, the University of California, Berkeley, The International Computer Science Institute and Budapest University. These measures are simply like cutting the head off of a hydra monster, because spammers quickly find ways to replace lost resources.

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