Anti-reconnaissance tools: Detecting targeted socialbots

IEEE Internet Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 11-19

  Paradise, Abigail ^a   Puzis, Rami ^a   Shabtai, Asaf ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

reconnaissance; social network; socialbots

Indexed keywords

INTERNET;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; DEFENSE STRATEGY; MONITORING STRATEGY; MOST LIKELY; NETWORK PROFILES; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; RECONNAISSANCE; SOCIALBOTS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84906736685     PISSN: 10897801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2014.81     Document Type: Article

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