Adapting social spam infrastructure for political censorship

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Thomas, Kurt ^a   Grier, Chris ^a   Paxson, Vern ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; BOTNET; COMPUTER VIRUSES;

FACEBOOK; FRAUDULENT ACCOUNTS; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; INTERNET ACCESS; PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS; SEARCHING FOR INFORMATIONS; SERVICE MARKETS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85084096827     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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