“Researchers Develop a More Accurate Spam Filter"
January 27, 2010 | Jill Laster, The Chronicle of Higher Education
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California researchers have developed a system they believe could stop the most common kind of spam from reaching people’s in boxes. Most spam e-mail messages are transmitted using a few infected computers that use a template-based system. The new system works by analyzing the small changes in messages that spammers make to slip past spam filters, according to the team from the University of California at San Diego and the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, Calif.
“To Beat Spam, Turn Its Own Weapons Against It”
January 25, 2010 | Jim GIles, New Scientist
Spammers' own trickery has been used to develop an "effectively perfect" method for blocking the most common kind of spam, a team of computer scientists claims. Most of the billions of spam messages sent each day originate in networks of compromised computers, called botnets. Unbeknown to their owners, the machines quietly run malicious software in the background that pumps out spam.
“Boffins Birth Uber ‘Net Neutrality’ Dowser”
January 22, 2010 | Cade Metz, The Register
Researchers with the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California have unveiled a completed version of their Netalyzr service, a tool designed to detect when your ISP is interfering with your net connection. The web-based service has been available as a beta since the middle of last year, but it's now set to collect mountains of data for a National Science Foundation-funded project that seeks to determine the state of so-called net neutrality.
“Cyber Espionage Reveals Spammer Strategies"
May 14, 2013 | Jeff Hecht, New Scientist
The war against spam is entering a new phase. Security researchers have identified patterns in the way spam is created that could give the upper hand to anti-spam software.
“Spam Grows Up"
Spring, 2009 | Daniel Gillick, Berkeley Science Review
“Researchers Hijack Botnet for Spam Study"
November 10, 2008 | John Leyden, The Register
Pharmacy-touting spammers can turn a decent return on response rates as low as one in 12 million, far lower than previously thought. So say security researchers at the University of California, San Diego and UC Berkeley, who infiltrated the control system of the Storm botnet to research the economics of spam.
"Study Shows How Spammers Cash In"
November 10, 2008 | BBC News
Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send, finds a study.