@Spam: The underground on 140 characters or less

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 27-37

  Grier, Chris ^a   Thomas, Kurt ^b   Paxson, Vern ^a   Zhang, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurement; Security

Indexed keywords

CLICK-THROUGH RATE; CLICKTHROUGH DATA; E-MAIL SPAM; MALWARES; PHISHING; SECURITY; SPAM FILTERING; SPAMMERS; TECHNIQUES USED;

COMPUTER CRIME; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

INTERNET;

EID: 78650005374     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1866307.1866311     Document Type: Conference Paper

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