Devious Chatbots - Interactive malware with a plot

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 44 CCIS, Issue , 2009, Pages 110-118

  Jonathan, Pan Juin Yang ^a   Fung, Chun Che ^a   Wong, Kok Wai ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHATBOTS; CONVERSATION AGENTS; HUMAN COMMUNICATIONS; MALWARES; NEW FORMS; ONLINE HELP; PRACTICAL USE; SOCIAL ENGINEERING; SOCIAL ROBOTS; WEB 2.0;

COMPUTER CRIME; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 78349246329     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03986-7_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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