{"51780":{"#nid":"51780","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Research to Stem Spammers Accepted by Top Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EATLANTA (May 4, 2006)--\u003C\/strong\u003EResearch by Nick Feamster, College of Computing Assistant Professor within the Computing Sciences and Systems (CSS) division, and Ph.D. student Anirudh Ramachandran was recently accepted to ACM\u0027s SIGCOMM 2006. SIGCOMM is the flagship conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), a vital part of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Feamster and Ramachandran are developing algorithms and systems to stem spam and frustrate phishing attacks.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir recent work titled \u0022Understanding the Network-Level Behavior of Spammers,\u0022\u00a0is a preliminary study\u00a0that aims to better understand the techniques and patterns that spammers use to send unwanted and fraudulent email traffic to users. \u0022One of the surprising findings,\u0022 says Feamster \u0022was that spammers actually exploit the insecurity of the Internet routing infrastructure to send spam untraceably.\u0022 For instance, the two researchers observed nefarious parties \u0022hijacking\u0022 routes to Internet destinations for brief periods of time in an attempt to frustrate auditing and evade blacklisting. They also observed that the vast majority of spam is originating from botnets.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBased on these observations, Feamster and Ramachandran are now working on systems to help Internet Service Providers build better spam filters and detect spamming botnets using passive network monitoring techniques. Their paper\u00a0was one of\u00a0approximately 30 out of over 300 submissions accepted for this year\u0027s ACM SIGCOMM\u00a0which is the premier international computing networking conference. While their research will also be presented at the North American Network Operator\u0027s Group (NANOG) meeting, Nick Feamster had one other paper accepted to SIGCOMM 2006, quite an accomplishment considering the 10% acceptance rate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u00a0 \u003Cbr \/\u003EFor the preliminary version of \u0022Understanding the Network-Level Behavior of Spammers,\u0022 \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www-static.cc.gatech.edu\/~feamster\/publications\/spam-gt-css-2006-001.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor information about ACM\u0027s SIGCOMM 2006, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sigcomm.org\/sigcomm2006\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENick Feamster, College of Computing Assistant Professor within the Computing Sciences and Systems (CSS) division, and Ph.D. student Anirudh Ramachandran recently had their work accepted\u00a0by ACM\u0027s SIGCOMM 2006.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:47:01","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:16","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-05-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-05-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}