Social network analysis of a criminal hacker community

Journal of Computer Information Systems

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 31-41

  Lu, Yong ^a   Luo, Xin ^b   Polgar, Michael ^a   Cao, Yuanyuan ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hacker; Hacker groups; Network analysis; Shadowcrew; Social organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951846085     PISSN: 08874417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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