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Botnets are networks of compromised computers with malicious code which are remotely controlled and which are used for starting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, sending enormous number of e-mails (SPAM) and other sorts of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-06-23 Srdjan Stankovic , Dejan Simic

E-mail is probably the most popular application on the Internet, with everyday business and personal communications dependent on it. Spam or unsolicited e-mail has been estimated to cost businesses significant amounts of money. However, our…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2010-08-20 Farnaz Moradi , Tomas Olovsson , Philippas Tsigas

Most existing techniques for spam detection on Twitter aim to identify and block users who post spam tweets. In this paper, we propose a Semi-Supervised Spam Detection (S3D) framework for spam detection at tweet-level. The proposed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Surendra Sedhai , Aixin Sun

This paper is a survey discussing Information Retrieval concepts, methods, and applications. It goes deep into the document and query modelling involved in IR systems, in addition to pre-processing operations such as removing stop words and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Youssef Bassil

Email is a private medium of communication, and the inherent privacy constraints form a major obstacle in developing effective spam filtering methods which require access to a large amount of email data belonging to multiple users. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Manas A. Pathak , Mehrbod Sharifi , Bhiksha Raj

The proliferation of social media has the potential for changing the structure and organization of the web. In the past, scientists have looked at the web as a large connected component to understand how the topology of hyperlinks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Tommy Nguyen , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Public networks are exposed to port scans from the Internet. Attackers search for vulnerable services they can exploit. In large scan campaigns, attackers often utilize different machines to perform distributed scans, which impedes their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Steffen Haas , Florian Wilkens , Mathias Fischer

Traditional spam classification requires the end-user to reveal the content of its received email to the spam classifier which violates the privacy. Spam classification over encrypted emails enables the classifier to classify spam email…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Sicong Wang , Naveen Karunanayake , Tham Nguyen , Suranga Seneviratne

This paper explores the problem of sockpuppet detection in deceptive opinion spam using authorship attribution and verification approaches. Two methods are explored. The first is a feature subsampling scheme that uses the KL-Divergence on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Marjan Hosseinia , Arjun Mukherjee

With the increasing number of network threats it is essential to have a knowledge of existing and new network threats in order to design better intrusion detection systems. In this paper we propose a taxonomy for classifying network attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Hanan Hindy , Elike Hodo , Ethan Bayne , Amar Seeam , Robert Atkinson , Xavier Bellekens

Computer generated academic papers have been used to expose a lack of thorough human review at several computer science conferences. We assess the problem of classifying such documents. After identifying and evaluating several quantifiable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-08-05 Allen Lavoie , Mukkai Krishnamoorthy

With the prevalence of the Internet, online reviews have become a valuable information resource for people. However, the authenticity of online reviews remains a concern, and deceptive reviews have become one of the most urgent network…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yuan Gao , Maoguo Gong , Yu Xie , A. K. Qin

Recently, Vietnamese Natural Language Processing has been researched by experts in academic and business. However, the existing papers have been focused only on information classification or extraction from documents. Nowadays, with quickly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-16 T. H. H Duong , T. D. Vu , V. M. Ngo

Malware spread among websites and between websites and clients is an increasing problem. Search engines play an important role in directing users to websites and are a natural control point for intervening, using mechanisms such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Benjamin Edwards , Tyler Moore , George Stelle , Steven Hofmeyr , Stephanie Forrest

In this paper we discuss several issues related to automated text classification of web sites. We analyze the nature of web content and metadata in relation to requirements for text features. We find that HTML metatags are a good source of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 John M. Pierre

Today, many different types of scams can be found on the internet. Online criminals are always finding new creative ways to trick internet users, be it in the form of lottery scams, downloading scam apps for smartphones or fake gambling…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Tobias Dam , Lukas Daniel Klausner , Damjan Buhov , Sebastian Schrittwieser

Internet technology is so pervasive today, for example, from online social networking to online banking, it has made people's lives more comfortable. Due the growth of Internet technology, security threats to systems and networks are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-30 B. B. Gupta , Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage , Konstantinos E. Psannis

Anomalies in online social networks can signify irregular, and often illegal behaviour. Anomalies in online social networks can signify irregular, and often illegal behaviour. Detection of such anomalies has been used to identify malicious…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-02 David Savage , Xiuzhen Zhang , Xinghuo Yu , Pauline Chou , Qingmai Wang

The proposed algorithmic approach deals with finding the sense of a word in an electronic data. Now a day,in different communication mediums like internet, mobile services etc. people use few words, which are slang in nature. This approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Alok Ranjan Pal , Diganta Saha

Existence of spam URLs over emails and Online Social Media (OSM) has become a growing phenomenon. To counter the dissemination issues associated with long complex URLs in emails and character limit imposed on various OSM (like Twitter), the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-05-08 Neha Gupta , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru