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Title

Classifying excessive internet resource consumption : proposed taxonomies

Author(s)

Armitage, Grenville J.;  Tran, Minh H.

Abstract

The Internet’s current architecture de-couples the cost of sending traffic from the consequences of sending traffic. Its open nature allows anyone to initiate a connection with minimal authentication. These factors account for the excessive consumption caused by spam in the email system and other service areas. At the network layer, resource consumption caused by spam is analogous to Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. We believe the two taxonomies proposed in this paper (of spam definition and of spam sending mechanisms) are the first comprehensive study of spam over different service areas. Our taxonomies will help in comprehending the similarities and differences between traditional Email spam and related newer problems such as SPIT (spam over internet telephony), SPIM (spam over instant messenger) and Web spam (spam over search engines, which misleads search engines into ranking some pages higher than they deserve).

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures

Source

Proceedingsof the Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC 2006), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 04-06 December 2006, p. 112-116

Publication year

2006

Keyword(s)

Taxonomy;  Spam;  Email spam;  SPIT;  SPIM,;  Web spam;  DDoS attacks

Publisher

University of Melbourne

ISBN

0977586103

Publisher URL

http://www.ee.unimelb.edu.au/atnac2006/programs/poster_list.html

Copyright

Copyright © 2006 ATNAC and the authors. Published version of this paper reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher.

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