Fighting malware and spam

Upcoming events

Round up of this year's must-attend spam events.

• The 2007 Spam Conference will take place on 30 March 2007 at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. The title for this year's conference is 'Spam, phishing and other cybercrimes'. See http://spamconference.org/.

• The Authentication Summit 2007 will be held 18-19 April 2007 in Boston, MA, USA. The two-day intensive program will focus on online authentication, identity and reputation, highlighting best practices in email, web and domain authentication. For full details see http://www.aotalliance.org/.

• The EU Spam Symposium takes place 24-25 May 2007 in Vienna, Austria. See http://www.spamsymposium.eu/.

• Inbox 2007 will be held 31 May to 1 June 2007 in San Jose, CA, USA. For more details see http://www.inboxevent.com/.

• The 10th general meeting of the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) will take place 5-7 June in Dublin, Ireland (members only) and a further meeting - open to both members and non-members - will be held 3-5 October in Washington D.C., USA. For details see http://www.maawg.org/.

• CEAS 2007, the 4th Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, takes place 2-3 August 2007 in Mountain View, CA, USA. Full details including a call for papers (submission deadline 23 March 2007) can be found at http://www.ceas.cc/.

• VB2007 takes place 19-21 September 2007 Vienna, Austria. Full details including a call for papers (submission deadline 1 March 2007) can be found here.

• The Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) 2007 will be held 6-9 November 2007 at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD, USA. As in 2005 and 2006, TREC 2007 will include a spam track, the goal of which is to provide a standard evaluation of current and proposed spam filtering approaches. For more information see http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/spam.

01 February 2007

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