Fashion crimes: Trending-term exploitation on the web

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 455-466

  Moore, Tyler ^a   Leontiadis, Nektarios ^b   Christin, Nicolas ^b  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advertisements; Malware; Online crime; Search engines

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISEMENTS; ECONOMIC MODELS; LOW QUALITIES; MALWARES; MEASUREMENT INTERVAL; MULTIPLE SOURCE; ON-LINE SERVICE; ONLINE CRIME; RANKING ALGORITHM; SEARCH RESULTS; SEARCH TERMS; WEB SEARCHES;

CRIME; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROFITABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEARCH ENGINES; SECURITY OF DATA; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 80755144007     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2046707.2046761     Document Type: Conference Paper

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