McAfee Labs Peer-Reviewed Research
McAfee Labs researchers are frequent contributors to many industry-leading journals and publications. Click the links below to access the latest cutting-edge security research and our archive of published work.
Mining DNS for Malicious Domain Registrations
Yuanchen He, Zhenyu Zhong, Sven Krasser, Yuchun Tang, "Mining DNS for Malicious Domain Registrations," Proc. of The 6th International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2010), Chicago, 2010.
SVMs Modeling for Highly Imbalanced Classification
Yuchun Tang, Yan-Qing Zhang, Nitesh V. Chawla, and Sven Krasser, "SVMs Modeling for Highly Imbalanced Classification," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 281-288, 2009.
Highly Scalable SVM Modeling with Random Granulation for Spam Sender Detection
Yuchun Tang, Yuanchen He, and Sven Krasser, "Highly Scalable SVM Modeling with Random Granulation for Spam Sender Detection," Proc. of The Seventh International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'08), San Diego, pp. 659-664, 2008.
Support Vector Machines and Random Forests Modeling for Spam Senders Behavior Analysis
Yuchun Tang, Sven Krasser, Yuanchen He, Weilai Yang, and Dmitri Alperovitch, "Support Vector Machines and Random Forests Modeling for Spam Senders Behavior Analysis," Proc. of IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2008), Computer and Communications Network Security Symposium, New Orleans, 2008.
All Your MP3s Belong To Us
Christoph Alme, Micha Pekrul, Dennis Elser, All Your MP3s Are Belong To Us, September 2008, Virus Bulletin Magazine.
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Spam Sender Detection with Classification Modeling on Highly Imbalanced Mail Server Behavior Data
Yuchun Tang, Sven Krasser, Dmitri Alperovitch, and Paul Judge, "Spam Sender Detection with Classification Modeling on Highly Imbalanced Mail Server Behavior Data," Proc. of 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition 2008 (AIPR-08), Orlando, pp. 174-180, 2008.
Metafile Art Class
Dennis Elser, Metafile Art Class, June 2008, Virus Bulletin Magazine.
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Web Spam Challenge 2008
Yuchun Tang, Yuanchen He, and Sven Krasser, "Report for Webspam 2008 Classification Modeling," at http://webspam.lip6.fr/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.PhaseIIIResults, April 2008.
ALPACAS: A Large-Scale Privacy-Aware Collaborative Anti-Spam System
Zhenyu Zhong, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, and Kang Li, In the Proceedings of 27th International Conference on Computer Communication(IEEE Infocom 2008), Phoenix, AZ, April, 2008
Reasoning-Based Adaptive Language Parsing for Lexical Reasoning Machines
Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Secure Computing), March 2008.
The Relationship of Phishing and Domain Tasting
Greg Aaron (Afilias), Dmitri Alperovitch (Secure Computing), and Laura Mather (MarkMonitor), September 2007, Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG).
Inside Rogue Flash Ads
Dennis Elser, Micha Pekrul, Inside Rogue Flash Ads, January 2008, Virus Bulletin Magazine.
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Blow Up Your Video
Christoph Alme, Dennis Elser, Blow Up Your Video, December 2007, Virus Bulletin Magazine.
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Web Spam Challenge 2007
Yuchun Tang, Yuanchen He, Sven Krasser, and Paul Judge, "Web Spam Challenge 2007," in Proc. Graph Labeling Workshop and Web Spam Challenge (GRAPHLAB 2007), Warsaw, Poland, September 2007. There is also a video of the presentation.
Stopping Malware at the Gateway: Challenges and Solutions
Martin Stecher, Stopping malware at the gateway - Challenges and solutions, September 2007, Virus Bulletin.
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Pump-n-Dump for Fun & Profit: An In-Depth Look Into Stock Spam and Brokerage Account Compromise Operations
Dmitri Alperovitch, Paul Judge, Sven Krasser, Phyllis Schneck, And Dane VandenBerg, Virus Bulletin 2007. Vienna, Austria, September 2007.
Identifying Image Spam Based on Header and File Properties Using C4.5 Decision Trees and Support Vector Machine Learning *
S. Krasser, Y. Tang, J. Gould, D. Alperovitch, and P. Judge, "Identifying image spam based on header and file properties using C4.5 decision trees and support vector machine learning," accepted Eighth IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Information Assurance Workshop 2007.
Taxonomy of email reputation systems *
D. Alperovitch, P. Judge, and S. Krasser, "Taxonomy of email reputation systems", in Proc. First International Workshop on Trust and Reputation Management in Massively Distributed Computing Systems (TRAM) 2007, invited paper.
Analyzing Network and Content Characteristics of SPIM Using Honeypots
A.Trivedi, P. Judge, and S. Krasser, "Analyzing network and content characteristics of spim using honeypots," accepted Third Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI) 2007.
Fast and effective spam sender detection with granular SVM on highly imbalanced mail server behavior data *
Y. Tang, S. Krasser, P. Judge, and Y.-Q. Zhang, in Proc. 2nd International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 2006.
Scanning Embedded Objects in Word XML Files
Christoph Alme, October 2006, Virus Bulletin.
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Early Fraud Detection Using a Hybrid of Messaging Reputation and Web Activity
Phyllis Schneck. Virus Bulletin 2006. Montreal, Canada, October 2006.
Approaches to Phishing Identification Using Match and Probabilistic Digital Fingerprinting Techniques
J. Zdziarski, W. Yang, and P. Judge, "Approaches to Phishing identification Using Match and Probabilistic Digital Fingerprinting Techniques," Spam Conference 2006.
Mapping the Email Universe
Paul Judge, Dmitri Alperovitch. Virus Bulletin 2005. Dublin, Ireland, October 2005.
Understanding and Reversing the Profit Model of Spam
Paul Judge, Phyllis Schneck. Virus Bulletin 2004. Chicago, IL, USA, September 2004.
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