Fraudulent and malicious sites on the web

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 112-120

  Obied, Ahmed ^a   Alhajj, Reda ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b GLOBAL UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Crawlers; Fraudulent; Malicious; Malware; Pharming; Phishing; Proxy; Search engines; Spam; Web

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CRIME; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES; SPAMMING;

CRAWLERS; FRAUDULENT; MALICIOUS; MALWARE; PHARMING; PHISHING; PROXY; SPAM; WEB;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 63149190385     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10489-007-0102-y     Document Type: Article

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