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Nontechnical SPAM Detection Paradigmin in Unified Communications Systems

Authors:
Moritz Giesecke

Keywords: spam, spit, unified communications and social networks

Abstract:
The recognition and filtering out of unwanted messages in technical communications media presents an ever more difficult challenge. The best-known of these problems is with ubiquitous e-mail. Most email sent are unwanted spams. In order to protect the recipient the most diverse applications must be used. Longer observations have shown that spam is continually adapted and is able to overcome the most upto-date recognition programs. In the future the most widely different communication methods are growing together such as e-mail, telephony and others, so that soon we will be able to speak of unified communication. There is a danger that these other communications media will increasingly become the target of new types of spam. On the other hand this logical union opens up new possibilities for spam recognition. In this paper, a behaviour-based evaluation paradigm is introduced which works on a uniform basis for all communications media. It uses an evaluation of the three parameters of abstracted times of usage, distance of communication partners and costs. All communication events between media using actors create a social network whereby the actors are clustered according to their social proximity. The evaluation of spam is a result of the actors and cluster specific communication behaviour up to a point. In this way a new non-technical level of analysis is created, which spammers can only overcome with difficulty. Likewise the problem of limited focus in network centred filtering programs is dealt with. The presented filtering paradigm can be used unitary in all technical communications media and works with the same three nontechnical parameters at a behavior-based level.

Pages: 34 to 40

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2010

Publication date: November 21, 2010

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3549

ISBN: 978-1-61208-105-2

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 21, 2010 to November 26, 2010