Cheap and automated socio-technical attacks based on social networking sites

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 61-64

  Huber, Markus ^a   Mulazzani, Martin ^a   Schrittwieser, Sebastian ^a   Weippl, Edgar ^a  

^a SBA Research   (Austria)

Author keywords

Security; Theory

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND INFORMATION; DATA POOL; SECURITY; SOCIAL ENGINEERING; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; SOCIOTECHNICAL; THEORY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; LAKES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 78650103054     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1866423.1866435     Document Type: Conference Paper

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