Consequences of connectivity: Characterizing account hijacking on Twitter

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 489-500

  Thomas, Kurt ^a   Li, Frank ^a   Grier, Chris ^a,b   Paxson, Vern ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Account hijacking; Compromise; Social networks

Indexed keywords

CRIME; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MALWARE; WEB SERVICES;

ACCOUNT HIJACKING; COMPROMISE; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; LARGE-SCALE ATTACKS; OUTBREAK DETECTION; PHISHING; SOCIAL GRAPHS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84910616305     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2660267.2660282     Document Type: Conference Paper

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