Efficient and scalable socware detection in online social networks

Proceedings of the 21st USENIX Security Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 663-678

  Rahman, Md Sazzadur ^a   Huang, Ting Kai ^a   Madhyastha, Harsha V ^a   Faloutsos, Michalis ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VIRUSES; PERSONAL COMPUTING;

DETECTION METHODS; FACEBOOK APPLICATIONS; FACEBOOK PAGES; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS (OSNS); SECURITY MECHANISM; WEB-BASED MALWARE; WEBSITE BLACKLISTS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85076213516     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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