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Thursday
July 16, 2009
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8:00 am
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Registration Opens
Breakfast
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8:55 am
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Introductory Remarks
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Tobias Scheffer
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9:00 am
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Invited Talk
The Fight Against Spam: Should We Start to Hit Back?
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Dave Dittrich
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10:00 am
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Break
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10:30 am
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Session 1: Observing Spam in the Wild
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Session Chair: Kang Li
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Spamming Chains: A New Way of Understanding Spammer Behavior
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Pedro Calais, Dorgival Guedes, Wagner Meira Jr., Cristine Hoepers, Marcelo Chaves and Klaus Steding-Jessen
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20 minutes
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Spamology: A Study of Spam Origins
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Craig Shue, Minaxi Gupta, Chin Hua Kong, John Lubia and Asim Yuksel
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20 minutes
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Spamming Botnets: Are we losing the war?
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Marios Kokkodis and Michalis Faloutsos
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10 minutes
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How much did shutting down McColo help?
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Richard Clayton
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10 minutes
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11:50 am
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Lunch Break
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12:20 pm
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Birds of a Feather Meetings
(Lunch Continues)
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1:20 pm
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Session 2: Personalization and Filtering
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Session Chair: Scott Yih
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Autonomous Personal Filtering Improves Global Spam Filter
Performance
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Gordon V. Cormack and Mona Mojdeh
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20 minutes
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Going Mini: Extreme Lightweight Spam Filters
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D. Sculley and Gordon V. Cormack
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20 minutes
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Collaborative Email-Spam Filtering with Consistently Bad Labels
using Feature Hashing
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Josh Attenberg, Kilian Weinberger, Anirban Dasgupta, Alex Smola and Martin Zinkevich
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10 minutes
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2:25 pm
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Break
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2:35 pm
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Poster Session
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A Study of URL Redirection Indicating Spam
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Krishna Vangapandu, Douglas Brewer and Kang Li
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Evaluating Online Text Classification Algorithms for Email
Prediction in TaskTracer
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Victoria Keiser and Thomas Dietterich
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A Human Factors Approach to Spam Filtering
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Robert Beverly
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Characterization of Spam Advertised Website Hosting Strategy
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Chun Wei, Alan Sprague, Gary Warner and Anthony Skjellum
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Spam Detection using Clustering, Random Forests, and Active
Learning
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Dave DeBarr and Harry Wechsler
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Using old Spam and Ham Samples to Train Email Filters
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Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz and Gordon V. Cormack
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Spamming Botnets: Are we losing the war?
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Marios Kokkodis and Michalis Faloutsos
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How much did shutting down McColo help?
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Richard Clayton
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SA2PX: A Tool to Translate SpamAssassin Regular Expression
Rules to POSIX
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Shi Pu, Cheng-Chung Tan and Jyh-Charn Liu
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Training SpamAssassin with Active Semi-supervised Learning
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Giorgio Fumera, Jun-Ming Xu, Fabio Roli and Zhi-Hua Zhou
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Spamming Chains: A New Way of Understanding Spammer Behavior
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Pedro Calais, Dorgival Guedes, Wagner Meira Jr., Cristine Hoepers, Marcelo Chaves and Klaus Steding-Jessen
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Collaborative Email-Spam Filtering with Consistently Bad Labels
using Feature Hashing
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Josh Attenberg, Kilian Weinberger, Anirban Dasgupta, Alex Smola and Martin Zinkevich
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4:05 pm
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Session 3: Anti-Spam Techniques
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Session Chair: Gordon Cormack
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Router-Level Spam Filtering Using TCP Fingerprints:
Architecture and Measurement-Based Evaluation
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Holly Esquivel, Tatsuya Mori and Aditya Akella
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20 minutes
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An Anti-spam Filter Combination Framework for Text-and-Image
Emails
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Byungki Byun, Chin-Hui Lee, Steve Webb, Danesh Irani and Calton Pu
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20 minutes
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SA2PX: A Tool to Translate SpamAssassin Regular Expression
Rules to POSIX
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Shi Pu, Cheng-Chung Tan and Jyh-Charn Liu
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20 minutes
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Using old Spam and Ham Samples to Train Email Filters
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Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz and Gordon V. Cormack
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10 minutes
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5:30 pm
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Reception
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6:00 pm
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Banquet
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Friday
July 17, 2009
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8:00 am
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Breakfast
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9:00 am
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Invited Talk
Teaching Johnny Not to Fall for Phish
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Lorrie Faith Cranor
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10:00 am
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Break
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10:30 am
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Session 4: Phishing and Information Leaks
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Session Chair: Tobias Scheffer
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An Empirical Analysis of Phishing Blacklists
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Steve Sheng, Brad Wardman, Gary Warner, Lorrie Cranor, Jason Hong and Chengshan Zhang
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20 minutes
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Anti-Phishing Landing Page: Turning a 404 into a Teachable
Moment for End Users
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Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Lorrie Cranor and Laura Mather
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20 minutes
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Information Leaks and Suggestions: A Case Study using Mozilla
Thunderbird
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Vitor Carvalho, William Cohen and Ramnath Balasubramanyan
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20 minutes
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11:45 am
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Lunch Break
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1:15 pm
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Session 5: Statistical Learning
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Session Chair: D. Sculley
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Training SpamAssassin with Active Semi-supervised Learning
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Giorgio Fumera, Jun-Ming Xu, Fabio Roli and Zhi-Hua Zhou
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20 minutes
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Feature Weighting for Improved Classifier Robustness
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Choon Hui Teo and Aleksander Kolcz
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20 minutes
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Spam Detection using Clustering, Random Forests, and Active
Learning
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Dave DeBarr and Harry Wechsler
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10 minutes
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2:20 pm
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Break
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2:40 pm
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Session 6: Alternative Approaches
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Session Chair: Eric Allman
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Extracting Product Information from Email Receipts Using Markov
Logic
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Stanley Kok and Scott Wen-tau Yih
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20 minutes
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CentMail: Rate Limiting via Certified Micro-Donations
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Sharad Goel, Jake Hofman, John Langford, David Pennock and Daniel Reeves
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20 minutes
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A Human Factors Approach to Spam Filtering
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Robert Beverly
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10 minutes
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3:45 pm
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Business Meeting
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4:00 pm
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End
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