The early (tweeting) Bird spreads the worm: An assessment of twitter for malware propagation

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages 705-712

  Sanzgiri, Ameya ^a   Joyce, Jacob ^a   Upadhyaya, Shambhu ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Malware; Malware propagation; Model; Social networks; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885396742     PISSN: 18770509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2012.06.090     Document Type: Conference Paper

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