; --------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Submit by logging into grace.umd.edu and using the following command: ; submit 2014 fall enee 757 0101 17 my_file.bib ; --------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Required Readings @INPROCEEDINGS{ Kanich08, title = {Spamalytics: an empirical analysis of spam marketing conversion}, author = {Chris Kanich and Christian Kreibich and Kirill Levchenko and Brandon Enright and Geoffrey M. Voelker and Vern Paxson and Stefan Savage}, booktitle = {ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security}, bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}, abstract = {The conversion rate of spam--the probability that an unsolicited e-mail will ultimately elicit a sale--underlies the entire spam value proposition. However, our understanding of this critical behavior is quite limited, and the literature lacks any quantitative study concerning its true value. In this paper we present a methodology for measuring the conversion rate of spam. Using a parasitic infiltration of an existing botnet's infrastructure, we analyze two spam campaigns: one designed to propagate a malware Trojan, the other marketing on-line pharmaceuticals. For nearly a half billion spam e-mails we identify the number that are successfully delivered, the number that pass through popular anti-spam filters, the number that elicit user visits to the advertised sites, and the number of sales and infections produced.}, year = {2008}, pages = {3-14}, crossref = {DBLP:conf/ccs/2008}, studentfirstname ="", studentlastname ="", summary = "", contribution1 ="", contribution2 ="", contribution3 ="", contribution4 ="", contribution5 ="", weakness1 = "", weakness2 = "", weakness3 = "", weakness4 = "", weakness5 = "", interesting = "high/med/low", opinions = "", } ; BibTex cross-references (don't add anything here) @PROCEEDINGS{ DBLP:conf/ccs/2008, title = {Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2008, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, October 27-31, 2008}, booktitle = {ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security}, bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}, editor = {Peng Ning and Paul F. Syverson and Somesh Jha}, isbn = {978-1-59593-810-7}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2008}, }