Collective classification for unknown malware detection

SECRYPT 2011 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 251-256

  Santos, Igor ^a   Laorden, Carlos ^a   Bringas, Pablo G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computer viruses; Data mining; Machine learning; Malware detection; Security

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY RATE; ANTI VIRUS; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; COLLECTIVE LEARNING; EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; GLOBAL SECURITY; MACHINE-LEARNING; MALICIOUS CODES; MALWARE DETECTION; MALWARES; SECURITY; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DATA MINING; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

COMPUTER VIRUSES;

EID: 80052494221     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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