MIT Spam Conference

MIT Spam Conference

The Upcoming MIT Spam Conference is looking for people to submit original, unpublished papers on any aspect of spam and other types of electronic communications brand malware. Some of the topics of interest include:

• phishing, spyware
• spit (spam over internet telephony)
• spim (spam over instant messenger)
• SMS spam
• MMORPG spam
• blog spam
• trackback spam
• image spam
• stock pump-and-dumps
• email con games
• exploit marketing
• identity theft
• zombie bots and bot armies
• antispam systems
• hardware antispam countermeasures
• software antispam countermeasures
• wetware (a.k.a., liveware, meatware, i.e., user errors)
• blue-ware (i.e. employing the police).

The conference welcomes submissions from anyone doing work on spam, anti-spam, or any other related cyber crime. Registration for the conference is free for all interested parties.

Program Co-chairs Kathy J. Liszka Professor, Computer Science The University of Akron
William Yerazunis Senior Research Scientist Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories