ICSI in New Scientist
“To Beat Spam, Turn Its Own Weapons Against It”
January 25, 2010 | Jim GIles, New Scientist
excerpt:
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.
article-date:
Monday, January 25, 2010
recap:
Networking researchers develop a highly accurate spam filter.