Re: why don't banks do more against phishing?

2012-04-22 Thread Mahmoud Khonji
will not be that of the bank's, and will likely trigger a false positive. Boils down to risk management -- money to lose by being a victim, versus that of turning new customers away due to the false positives. -- Regards, Mahmoud Khonji PGP Key: 0x92584ECA

Re: Question for experts....

2011-11-27 Thread Mahmoud Khonji
of dotted IPv4 formats are allowed: that's the dotted decimals. section 7.4 in rfc3986 does mention some security considerations. - -- Regards, Mahmoud Khonji PGP Key: 0x92584ECA -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: Question for experts....

2011-11-27 Thread Mahmoud Khonji
IPv4 URLs as spam results in 0% false positives :). while considering a dotted decimal IPv4 as spam results in 3-4% false positives. (stats from my data set). - -- Regards, Mahmoud Khonji PGP Key: 0x92584ECA -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: antiphishing

2011-10-31 Thread Mahmoud Khonji
expensive optimizations on it. it might be more productive to invest time in other more promising tests and make them better. -- Regards, Mahmoud Khonji PGP Key: 0x92584ECA

Re: Points for missing MX Records

2011-02-23 Thread Mahmoud Khonji
://www.itsystems.tamay-dogan.net/ http://www.flexray4linux.org/ http://www.debian.tamay-dogan.net/ http://www.can4linux.org/ Jabber linux4miche...@jabber.ccc.de ICQ#328449886 Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ -- Regards, Mahmoud Khonji

Re: Need Volunteers for Ham Trap

2011-02-07 Thread Mahmoud Khonji
On 01/21/2011 01:06 AM, Warren Togami Jr. wrote: On 1/20/2011 7:23 AM, R - elists wrote: initially this came across as a really suspect idea... i.e., one man's junk is another man's treasure Ham is a lot easier to define than Spam. Ham is simply anything that you subscribed for. I am

Re: SPAM/Phish and Ham E-mail Dataset

2011-01-14 Thread Mahmoud Khonji
SPAM. If anyone is welling to share Ham emails with me (i.e. by handing emails that do not conflict with his privacy, or via an NDA), I would highly appreciate it, and will indeed acknowledge you in my publications:) *** -- Regards, Mahmoud Khonji

SPAM/Phish and Ham E-mail Dataset

2011-01-12 Thread Mahmoud Khonji
at least! Wondering why did some folks take the initiative in ~2005, and then stopped contributing to the corpus? I notice the need is still there, and many are desperate to this kind of corpus. -- Regards, Mahmoud Khonji

anyone using the publiccorpus?

2010-09-18 Thread Mahmoud Khonji
The URI below lists ham/spam corpus, but I find them outdated for 2010. http://spamassassin.apache.org/publiccorpus/ I downloaded the 2005 spam corpus, and none of its content date in 2005 or 2004. Mostly 2003 and older. If anyone knows of any recent ham/spam/phish corpus kindly inform me.