Christian Kreibich Quoted on BBC News

^{March 29, 2010}
Networking Group scientist Christian Kreibich was quoted by BBC News discussing the difficulties of filtering spam email. The article focused on harmless emails incorrectly marked as spam. Researchers at ICSI and UC San Diego recently developed a spam blocking method that, in initial tests, only filtered spam messages, with no false positives -- that is, legitimate messages marked as spam. The system exploits the spam-creating botnets that run in the background of users' computers by learning the templates the bots use and teaching spam filters to look for these templates. While this doesn't guarantee a 100 percent success rate in real life situations, it is a huge step forward in spam prevention.

Read more about the system in the New Scientist article here >>.

Read the BBC News article here >>.