Paper Info
Title
"May I borrow your filter?" Exchanging filters to combat spam in a community
Abstract
Leveraging social networks in computer systems can be effective in dealing with a number of trust and security issues. Spam is one such issue where the "wisdom of crowds" can be harnessed by mining the collective knowledge of ordinary individuals. In this paper, we present a mechanism through which members of a virtual community can exchange information to combat spam. Previous attempts at collaborative spam filtering have concentrated on digest-based indexing techniques to share digests or fingerprints of emails that are known to be spam. We take a different approach and allow users to share their spam filters instead, thus dramatically reducing the amount of traffic generated in the network. The resultant diversity in the filters and cooperation in a community allows it to respond to spam in an autonomic fashion. As a test case for exchanging filters we use the popular SpamAssassin spam filtering software and show that exchanging spam filters provides an alternative method to improve spam filtering performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/AINA.2006.1
Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 2006. AINA 2006. 20th International Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
information filtering,telecommunication traffic,unsolicited e-mail,SpamAssassin spam filtering software,computer system,information exchange,social network leveraging,traffic generation,virtual community,Email filters,autonomic,collaborative networks,collaborative recommendation systems,spam messages,trust
World Wide Web,Computer security,Computer science,Collective intelligence,Information exchange,Search engine indexing,Computer network,Information security,Spam and Open Relay Blocking System,Spambot,Forum spam,Virtual community
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
2
1550-445X
0-7695-2466-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.50
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anurag Garg1948.13
Roberto Battiti21937262.40
Roberto G. Cascella3394.97