The veil of anonymity provided by smartphones with pre-paid SIM cards, public Wi-Fi
hotspots, and distributed networks like Tor has drastically complicated the task of identifying …

We present a comprehensive review of the most effective content-based e-mail spam
filtering techniques. We focus primarily on Machine Learning-based spam filters and their …

Authorship attribution supported by statistical or computational methods has a long history
starting from the 19th century and is marked by the seminal study of Mosteller and Wallace …

Authorship attribution, the science of inferring characteristics of the author from the
characteristics of documents written by that author, is a problem with a long history and a …

Statistical authorship attribution has a long history, culminating in the use of modern
machine learning classification methods. Nevertheless, most of this work suffers from the …

With the rapid proliferation of Internet technologies and applications, misuse of online
messages for inappropriate or illegal purposes has become a major concern for society. The …

One of the problems often associated with online anonymity is that it hinders social
accountability, as substantiated by the high levels of cybercrime. Although identity cues are …

Text is still the most prevalent Internet media type. Examples of this include popular social
networking applications such as Twitter, Craigslist, Facebook, etc. Other web applications …

In some investigations of digital crime, the question of who was at the keyboard when
incriminating documents were produced can be legitimately raised. Authorship attribution …

Authorship attribution is associated with important applications in forensics and humanities
research. A crucial point in this field is to quantify the personal style of writing, ideally in a …