The paper, “Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain”, got quite a bit of pres recently so there’s a number of great articles that summarize the paper content and have gone out to get quotes from banks and other security researchers and experts.
Newspaper, online news, and blogs:
- Study Sees Credit Cards as a “Choke Point” for Spam, New York Times
- Spammers and Their Bankers, New York Times Editorial
- How spam works, from end to end, boingboing
- Scientists Find ‘Choke Point’ Of Spam Email, Redorbit
- Anatomy of a Spam Viagra Purchase , Technology Review
- Researchers: Kill spam e-mails by choking off scammers’ cash, Consumer Reports
- Have Researchers Found a Cure for Spam?, ITBusinessEdge
- A True Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem?, CircleID
- Banks Profit From Spam, F-Secure
- Secret to Stopping Spam: Follow the Money, Scientific American Blog
- Spam as a Business, Bruce Schneier
- A Way to Take Out Spammers? 3 banks process 95% of spam transactions, Ars Technica
- Credit Processors Targeted in Fight Against Spam, The Register
- Stopping Spam at the Bank, Internet Evolution
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