Juice: A Longitudinal Study of an SEO Botnet

20th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wang, David Y ^a   Savage, Stefan ^a   Voelker, Geoffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VIRUSES; SEARCH ENGINES; VIRUSES;

ANTI VIRUS; ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAMS; BOTNETS; E-MAIL (SPAM); GOOGLE+; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATIONS; SEARCH TERMS; WEB-SITES;

BOTNET;

EID: 85074786935     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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