TC: Small: Understanding the Roots of the Spam Problem -- Email Address Trafficking

TC：小：了解垃圾邮件问题的根源 - 电子邮件地址贩运

• 批准号: 0916407
• 负责人: Michael Rabinovich
• 金额: $ 14.63万
• 依托单位: Case Western Reserve University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0916407&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: TC; Small; Understanding; Roots; Spam

Existing anti-spam techniques, such as spam filters and reputation systems, face growing difficulties due to spammers' use of multimedia content (which is hard to filter) and botnets (which mask true spammer identity and thus handicap reputation systems). Te goal of this project is to complement these existing efforts by targeting email address distribution channels, where lists of addresses are bought and sold among unscrupulous parties. As a first necessary step, this project?s goal is to better understand the email trafficking phenomenon. This is a unique opportunity to study email spam in conjunction with email address trafficking. The team recently built a system for Internet users that, as a side effect, is able to collect the data that would contain information necessary for this analysis. Second, they secured cooperation from the Case Western Reserve University IT organization to test-deploy this system for up to 500 users and keep it in place for at least a year, which would allow them to collect a trove of data for a large-scale study and analysis. This proposal will study spam from a unique perspective ? email address trafficking. While previous studies characterize spam by considering email content and senders, address trafficking represents an important aspect of the spam problem, and better understanding of address trafficking can open new effective ways to combat spam. The broader impact includes its potential for better mechanisms to combat spam, for fostering collaboration with data mining faculty within the department, and for enhancing graduate and undergraduate education by adding material on application-level network security to, respectively ?Internet Applications? graduate course and to the ?Computer Networks? core undergraduate course.

现有的反垃圾邮件技术，如垃圾邮件过滤器和信誉系统，面临着越来越多的困难，由于垃圾邮件发送者的使用多媒体内容（这是很难过滤）和僵尸网络（掩盖真正的垃圾邮件发送者的身份，从而妨碍信誉系统）。 该项目的目标是通过针对电子邮件地址分销渠道补充这些现有的努力，在这些渠道中，地址列表在肆无忌惮的各方之间进行买卖。 作为第一步，该项目？的目的是更好地了解电子邮件贩运现象。 这是一个独特的机会，研究电子邮件垃圾邮件与电子邮件地址贩运。该团队最近为互联网用户建立了一个系统，作为副作用，它能够收集包含这种分析所需信息的数据。 其次，他们获得了凯斯西储大学IT组织的合作，为多达500名用户测试部署该系统，并将其保持至少一年，这将使他们能够收集大量数据用于大规模研究和分析。 这个提案将从一个独特的角度研究垃圾邮件？电子邮件地址贩运。虽然以前的研究通过考虑电子邮件内容和垃圾邮件来描述垃圾邮件的特征，但地址贩运是垃圾邮件问题的一个重要方面，更好地了解地址贩运可以开辟新的有效方法来打击垃圾邮件。 更广泛的影响包括其潜在的更好的机制，以打击垃圾邮件，促进合作与数据挖掘教师在部门内，并加强研究生和本科生教育，通过增加材料的应用级网络安全，分别？互联网应用？研究生课程和？计算机网络？核心本科课程。