PharmaLeaks: Understanding the business of online pharmaceutical affiliate programs

Proceedings of the 21st USENIX Security Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-16

  McCoy, Damon ^a   Pitsillidis, Andreas ^b   Jordan, Grant ^b   Weaver, Nicholas ^b,c   Kreibich, Christian ^b,c   Krebs, Brian ^d   Voelker, Geoffrey M ^b   Savage, Stefan ^b   Levchenko, Kirill ^b  

^a Department of Computer Science ^*

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d KrebsOnSecuritycom   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; SALES; SEARCH ENGINES;

ADVERTISING INDUSTRY; BUSINESS ENTERPRISE; BUSINESS MODELING; CONSUMER DEMANDS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATIONS; THIRD PARTIES; TRANSACTION LOG;

COST ACCOUNTING;

EID: 84900789776     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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