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Trinitya: distributed defense against transient spam-bots

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Alex Brodsky,

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PODC '07: Proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing

Pages 378 - 379

https://doi.org/10.1145/1281100.1281182

Published: 12 August 2007 Publication History

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Transient spam-bots are hijacked computers that are connected to the Internet for short periods of time, during which they send large amounts of spam. These spam-bots have become a principle source of spam; against which, static countermeasures such as DNS Black Lists are largely ineffective, and content-based filters provide temporary relief without ongoing tuning and upgrading---a never-ending cat-and-mouse game.

This is a brief overview of Trinity [1], a distributed, content independent, spam classification system that is specifically aimed at transient spam-bots. Trinity uses source identification in combination with a peer-to-peer based distributed database to identify and track transient spam-bots. Trinity's design load balances the task of tracking the transient spam-bots and provides a robust defense against denial-of-service and malevolent peer attacks.

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Kumar BRavi V(2016)A survey of the applications of text mining in financial domainKnowledge-Based Systems10.1016/j.knosys.2016.10.003114:C(128-147)Online publication date: 15-Dec-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.knosys.2016.10.003
Caruana GLi M(2008)A survey of emerging approaches to spam filteringACM Computing Surveys10.1145/2089125.208912944:2(1-27)Online publication date: 5-Mar-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2089125.2089129

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Trinitya: distributed defense against transient spam-bots
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Organizing principles for web applications

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424 pages

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DOI:10.1145/1281100

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