Key challenges in defending against malicious socialbots

5th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats, LEET 2012: Botnets, Spyware, Worms, New Emerging Threats, and More

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Boshmaf, Yazan ^a   Muslukhov, Ildar ^a   Beznosov, Konstantin ^a   Ripeanu, Matei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VIRUSES;

CYBER CRIMINALS; HUMAN BEING; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; PERSONALIZED MESSAGES; POSITION PAPERS; SOCIAL SETTINGS; USABLE SECURITY; WEB AUTOMATION;

BOTNET;

EID: 85084095251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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