Paying for likes? Understanding facebook like fraud using honeypots

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 129-135

  De Cristofaro, Emiliano ^a   Friedman, Arik ^b   Jourjon, Guillaume ^b   Kaafar, Mohamed Ali ^b   Shafiq, M Zubair ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Honeypots; Malicious activities; Online social networks

Indexed keywords

CRIME; NETWORK SECURITY;

COMPARATIVE MEASUREMENTS; FACEBOOK PAGES; HONEYPOTS; MALICIOUS ACTIVITIES; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PROTECTION ALGORITHMS; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; TO A VERY LARGE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84910115464     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2663716.2663729     Document Type: Conference Paper

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