DeSEO: Combating search-result poisoning

Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Security Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 299-313

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MSR Silicon Valley ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARGE DATASET; NETWORK SECURITY; WEBSITES;

IN-DEPTH STUDY; LARGE DATASETS; WEB DOMAINS;

MALWARE;

EID: 85076487784     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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