Evaluating the wisdom of crowds in assessing phishing Websites

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5143 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 16-30

  Moore, Tyler ^a   Clayton, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHY; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ACTIVE USERS; EVALUATING; LARGE-SCALE; PHISHING; USER PARTICIPATIONS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 54249158448     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85230-8_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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