WARNINGBIRD: Detecting Suspicious URLs in Twitter Stream

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lee, Sangho ^a   Kim, Jong ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; MALWARE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CLASSIFIEDS; DETECTION SCHEME; DETECTION SYSTEM; DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; LANDING PAGES; LEXICAL FEATURES; MALWARES; PHISHING; SPAM DETECTION; TIME BASED;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84908490561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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