Revealing social networks of spammers through spectral clustering

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Xu, Kevin S ^a   Kliger, Mark ^b   Chen, Yilun ^a   Woolf, Peter J ^a   Hero III, Alfred O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Medasense Biometrics Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; E-MAIL ADDRESS; HONEYPOTS; IP ADDRESSS; PHISHING; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPAMMERS; SPECTRAL CLUSTERING; TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HARVESTERS; HARVESTING; INTERNET;

SPAMMING;

EID: 70449473998     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2009.5199418     Document Type: Conference Paper

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