Title :
Leveraging social networks to fight spam
Author :
Boykin, P. Oscar ; Roychowdhury, Vwani P.
Author_Institution :
Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL, USA
fDate :
4/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
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;
DOI :
10.1109/MC.2005.132
