What's clicking what? Techniques and innovations of today's clickbots

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6739 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 164-183

  Miller, Brad ^a   Pearce, Paul ^a   Grier, Chris ^a,b   Kreibich, Christian ^b   Paxson, Vern ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; ECONOMIC MODELS; INTERNET ADVERTISING; MALWARES;

CRIME; INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 79959947618     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22424-9_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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