View Item 

Spam 2.0: The Problem Ahead

Access Status
Fulltext not available
Authors
Potdar, Vidyasagar
Ridzuan, Farida
Hayati, Pedram
Talevski, Alex
Yeganeh, E.
Firuzeh, N.
Sarencheh, S.
Date
2010
Type
Book Chapter

Metadata
Show full item record
Citation
Potdar, Vidyasagar and Ridzuan, Farida and Hayati, Pedram and Talevski, Alex and Yeganeh, Elham Afsari and Firuzeh, Nazanin and Sarencheh, Saeed. 2010. Spam 2.0: The Problem Ahead, in Taniar, D. and Gervasi, O. and Murgante, B. and Pardede, E. and Apduhan, B.O. (ed), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6017: Computational science and its applications - ICCSA 2010, pp. 400-411. Germany: Springer.
Source Title
Lecture notes in computer science, volume 6017: computational science and its applications - ICCSA 2010
ISBN
School
Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute (DEBII)
URI
Collection
Abstract

Webspam is one of the most challenging problems faced by major search engines in the social computing arena. Spammers exploit weaknesses of major search engine algorithms to get their website in the top 10 search results, which results in higher traffic and increased revenue. The development of web applications where users can contribute content has also increased spam, since many web applications like blogging tools, CMS etc are vulnerable to spam. Spammers have developed targeted bots that can create accounts on such applications, add content and even leave comments automatically. In this paper we introduce the field of webspam, what it refers to, how spambots are designed and propagated, why webspam is becoming a big problem. We then experiment to show how spambots can be identified without using CAPTCHA. We aim to increase the general understanding of the webspam problem which will assist web developers, software engineers and web engineers.