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Accepted Papers

• A Campaign-based Characterization of Spamming Strategies
  Pedro Calais, Douglas Pires, Dorgival Guedes, Wagner Meira Jr., Cristine Hoepers and Klaus Steding-Jessen
   
• A Mail Client Plugin for Privacy-Preserving Spam Filter Evaluation
  Mona Mojdeh and Gordon Cormack
   
• A Survey of Modern Spam Tools
  Henry Stern
   
• Activity-centred Search in Email
  Einat Minkov, Ramnath Balasubramanyan and William Cohen
   
• Analysis of Spectral Parameters of Audio Signals for the Identification of Spam Over IP Telephony
  Christoph Prschmann and Heiko Knospe
   
• Breaking out of the Browser to Defend Against Phishing Attacks
  Diana Smetters and Paul Stewart
   
• Detecting Known and New Salting Tricks in Unwanted Emails
  Andre Bergholz, Gerhard Paass, Frank Reichartz, Siehyun Strobel, Marie-Francine Moens and Brian Witten
   
• Do Zebras get more Spam than Aardvarks?i
  Richard Clayton
   
• Empirical research on IP blacklisting
  Christian Dietrich and Christian Rossow
   
• Exploiting Transport-Level Characteristics of Spam
  Robert Beverly and Karen Sollins
   
• Filtering Email Spam in the Presence of Noisy User Feedback
  D. Sculley and Gordon Cormack
   
• Global-scale Anti-spam Testing in Your Own Back Yard
  Margaret Nielsen, Dane Bertram, Sampson Pun, John Aycock and Nathan Friess
   
• Improved Phishing Detection using Model-Based Features
  Andre Bergholz,Jeong-Ho Chang, Gerhard Paass, Frank Reichartz and Siehyun Strobel
   
• Improving Email Trustworthiness through Social-Group Key Authentication
  Vivek Pathak, Liviu Iftode and Danfeng Yao
   
• Improving Image Spam Filtering Using Image Text Features
  Giorgio Fumera, Fabio Roli, Battista Biggio and Ignazio Pillai
   
• On Free Speech and Civil Discourse: Filtering Abuse in Blog Comments
  D. Sculley
   
• Personalized Spam Filtering for Gray Mail
  Ming-Wei Chang, Scott Yih and Robert McCann
   
• Reducing E-Discovery Cost by Filtering Included Emails
  Tsuen-Wan Ngan
   
• Resolving FP-TP Conflict in Digest-Based Collaborative Spam Detection by Use of Negative Selection Algorithm
  Slavisa Sarafijanovic, Sabrina Perez and Jean-Yves Le Boudec
   
• Social Honeypots: Making Friends With A Spammer Near You
  Steve Webb, James Caverlee and Calton Pu
   
• The Effectiveness of Whitelisting: a User-Study
  David Erickson, Martin Casado and Nick McKeown
   
• Toward a stochastic speech act model of email behavior
  John Mildinhall and Jan Noyes
   
• Tracking Email Reputation for Authenticated Sender Identities
  Gautam Singaraju, Jeffrey Moss and Brent ByungHoon Kang
   

Spam Filtering Challenge Competition Entry Abstracts

• Adaptive Spam Filtering Using Only Naive Bayes Text Classifiers
  Aris Kosmopoulos, Georgios Paliouras and Ion Androutsopoulos
   
• Spam Challenge: IBM ISS Spam Filtering Technology
  C. Hagemann, D. Harz, R. Iffert and M. Usher
   
• Joint NLP Lab between HIT2 and CEAS Spam-filter Challenge
  Haoliang Qi, Xiaoning He, Muyun Yang, Jun Li, Guohua Lei and Sheng Li
   
• Introduction of Fingerprint Vector based Bayesian Method for Spam Filering
  Bin Chen, Shoubin Dong and Weidong Fang