Using social networks to harvest email addresses

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 11-20

  Polakis, Iasonas ^a   Kontaxis, Georgios ^a   Antonatos, Spiros ^a   Gessiou, Eleni ^a   Petsas, Thanasis ^a   Markatos, Evangelos P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

email harvesting; social networks; spam email; user profiling

Indexed keywords

DICTIONARY ATTACK; DIRECT MAPPING; E-MAIL ADDRESS; EMAIL HARVESTING; FACEBOOK; GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE; INTERNET ACTIVITY; PERSONAL INFORMATION; PHISHING; PRIVACY RISKS; PRIVATE INFORMATION; QUERY TERMS; SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY; SEARCH SPACES; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SPAM EMAILS; USER PROFILE; USER PROFILING;

COMPUTER CRIME; HARVESTING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES; SECURITY OF DATA; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WORLD WIDE WEB;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 78650224951     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1866919.1866922     Document Type: Conference Paper

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