01170nas a2200181 4500008004100000020002200041245004100063210004100104260003900145520064000184653002100824653002400845653001600869100002100885700002000906700001500926856004700941 2009 eng d a978-0-7695-3726-900aPenetration Testing for Spam Filters0 aPenetration Testing for Spam Filters aSeattle, WAbIEEE Computer Society3 a
Despite all the advances on techniques to block spam e-mail messages we still receive them on a frequent basis. This is due mainly to the ability of the spammers to modify the message and pass the filters. Therefore a testing technique that could resemble the behavior of spammers would improve the number of scenarios tested and allow filters to be developed based on the potential changes made by the spammers. An approach based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the penetration of spam filters is proposed here. Preliminary results using SpamAssassin are provided indicating the feasibility of the proposed approach.
10amutation testing10apenetration testing10aspam filter1 aMadhavan, Yugesh1 aCangussu, João1 aDantu, Ram uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2009.168