Searching the searchers with searchaudit

Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Security Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 127-142

  John, John P ^a,b   Yu, Fang ^b   Xie, Yinglian ^b   Abadi, Martín ^b,c   Krishnamurthy, Arvind ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CRIME; PERSONAL COMPUTING;

E-MAIL ADDRESS; MALICIOUS ENTITY; PHISHING ATTACKS; POTENTIAL ATTACK; REGULAR EXPRESSIONS; SEARCH LOGS; SEARCH QUERIES; WINDOWS LIVE MESSENGERS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 85042130640     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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