Are We Ready to Face Next-Generation Spam?

Posted December 31, 2005 | Leadership | Leadership |

There is no official definition of spam, yet most people know it when they see it. We consider spam to be advertisements or, more generally, all the e-mails that we do not want to appear in our mailbox. Formally, spam has three defining characteristics: it uses electronic means such as e-mail, is unsolicited, and comes in bulk.

About The Author
Charalampos Patrikakis
Charalampos Z. Patrikakis is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of West Attica (UniWA), Greece. He is also Director of UniWA’s Computer Networks & Services Research (CoNSeRT) Lab. Dr. Patrikakis has more than 100 publications in book chapters, international journals, and conferences and has made two contributions to national legis­lation. He is a senior member of IEEE, Associate Editor… Read More
Anastasios Pallas
Anastasios A. Pallas is an IT professor in secondary education in Greece. He is currently finishing his M.Sc. in IT at the University of Paisley, Scotland, in collaboration with the Technological Educational Institution of Pireaus, Greece. Mr. Pallas's research focuses on investigating the spam phenomenon in Greece and evaluating the effectiveness of comparatively unexploited techniques such as spam traps. He has experience consulting on and… Read More
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