Stealing reality: When criminals become data scientists (or vice versa)

IEEE Intelligent Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 22-30

  Altshuler, Yaniv ^a   Aharony, Nadav ^a   Pentland, Alex ^a   Elovici, Yuval ^b   Cebrian, Manuel ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

advanced persistent threat; intelligent systems; malware; mobile networks security; social and economic computing; stealth attacks

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED PERSISTENT THREAT; MALWARES; MOBILE NETWORKS SECURITY; SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC COMPUTING; STEALTH ATTACKS;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

CRIME;

EID: 83655202879     PISSN: 15411672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIS.2011.78     Document Type: Article

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