Examining the social networks of malware writers and hackers

International Journal of Cyber Criminology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 891-903

  Holt, Thomas J ^a   Strumsky, Deborah ^b   Smirnova, Olga ^c   Kilger, Max ^d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d The Honeynet Project ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Computer hackers; Cyber crime; Geography of networks; Malicious software; Malware; Network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867688873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 09742891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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