Towards Online Spam Filtering in Social Networks

19th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Gao, Hongyu ^a   Chen, Yan ^a   Lee, Kathy ^a   Palsetia, Diana ^a   Choudhary, Alok ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE TOOL; FACEBOOK; FILTERING SYSTEMS; INTERNET USERS; NETWORK PLATFORMS; OFFLINE; REAL- TIME; SPAM DETECTION; SPAM FILTERING; SPAM MESSAGES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84871971372     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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