Social Turing Tests: Crowdsourcing Sybil Detection

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wang, Gang ^a   Mohanlal, Manish ^a   Wilson, Christo ^a   Wang, Xiao ^c   Metzger, Miriam ^b   Zheng, Haitao ^a   Zhao, Ben Y ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Renren Inc   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; DIGITAL STORAGE; FAKE DETECTION; MALWARE;

DETECTION SYSTEM; FACEBOOK; GROUND TRUTH; LARGE CORPORA; LARGE USERS; LEGITIMATE USERS; MALWARES; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; TURING TESTS; USER STUDY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85180412749     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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