An MCL-based approach for spam profile detection in online social networks

Proc. of the 11th IEEE Int. Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom-2012 - 11th IEEE Int. Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications, IUCC-2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 602-608

  Ahmed, Faraz ^a   Abulaish, Muhammad ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Cyber security; Social network analysis; Social network security; Spam campaign identification; Spam profile detection

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; CYBER SECURITY; DATA SETS; FACEBOOK; INFORMATION SHARING; MAJORITY VOTING; MARKOV CLUSTERING; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE VALUE; PHISHING; SHARING INFORMATION; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SPAM MESSAGES; SPAMMERS; USER PROFILE; WEIGHTED GRAPH;

GRAPHIC METHODS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; NETWORK SECURITY; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84868089771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TrustCom.2012.83     Document Type: Conference Paper

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