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Key Challenges in Defending Against Malicious Socialbots / Yazan Boshmaf ; Ildar Muslukhov ; Konstantin Beznosov ; Matei Ripeanu [LERSSE-PRESENTATION-2012-001]
The ease with which we adopt online personas and relationships has created a soft spot that cyber criminals are willing to exploit. [...]
Published in Usenix 5th Workshop on Large-scale Exploits and Emerging Threats (LEET'12), San Jose, CA, USA.:
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Key Challenges in Defending Against Malicious Socialbots / Yazan Boshmaf ; Ildar Muslukhov ; Konstantin Beznosov ; Matei Ripeanu [LERSSE-RefConfPaper-2012-002]
The ease with which we adopt online personas and relationships has created a soft spot that cyber criminals are willing to exploit. [...]
Published in Yazan Boshmaf, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov, Matei Ripeanu. Key challenges in defending against malicious socialbots. In Proceedings of the 5th USENIX workshop on Large-scale exploits and emergent threats, LEET'12, Berkeley, CA, USA. USENIX Association.:
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The Socialbot Network: Are Social Botnets Possible? / Yazan Boshmaf ; Ildar Muslukhov ; Konstantin Beznosov ; Matei Ripeanu [LERSSE-etc-2012-001]
In this invited piece at the ACM Interactions Magazine, we briefly describe our research into the use, impact, and implications of socialbots on Facebook..
Published in Article by Tim Hwang, Ian Pearce, and Max Nanis. Socialbots: voices from the fronts. In ACM Interactions 19, 2 (March 2012). Piece by Yazan Boshmaf, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov, Matei Ripeanu. The Socialbot Network: Are Social Botnets Possible?:
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The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money / Yazan Boshmaf ; Ildar Muslukhov ; Konstantin Beznosov ; Matei Ripeanu [LERSSE-REPORT-2012-001]
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have attracted millions of active users and have become an integral part of today's Web ecosystem. [...]
Published in Yazan Boshmaf, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov, and Matei Ripeanu. The socialbot network: when bots socialize for fame and money. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'11), December 2011:
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Improving Malicious URL Re-Evaluation Scheduling Through an Empirical Study of Malware Download Centers / Kyle Zeeuwen ; Matei Ripeanu ; Konstantin Beznosov [LERSSE-RefConfPaper-2011-003]
The retrieval and analysis of malicious content is an essential task for security researchers. [...]
Published in K. Zeeuwen, M. Ripeanu, K. Beznosov, “Improving Malicious URL Re-Evaluation Scheduling Through an Empirical Study of Malware Download Centers”. WebQuality Workshop 2011, March 28, 2011.:
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[POSTER] The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money / Yazan Boshmaf ; Ildar Muslukhov ; Konstantin Beznosov ; Matei Ripeanu [LERSSE-POSTER-2011-002]
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become an integral part of today's Web. [...]
Published in Yazan Boshmaf, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov, and Matei Ripeanu. The socialbot network: when bots socialize for fame and money. In the Poster Session of the 20th USENIX Conference on Security (SEC'11), August 2011.:
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The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money / Yazan Boshmaf ; Ildar Muslukhov ; Konstantin Beznosov ; Matei Ripeanu [258] [LERSSE-RefConfPaper-2011-008]
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become an integral part of today's Web. [...]
Published in Yazan Boshmaf, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov, and Matei Ripeanu. The socialbot network: when bots socialize for fame and money. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'11), December 2011. For the technical report, please refer to http://lersse-dl.ece.ubc.ca/record/272:
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The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money / Yazan Boshmaf ; Ildar Muslukhov ; Konstantin Beznosov ; Matei Ripeanu [258] [LERSSE-RefConfPaper-2011-008]
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become an integral part of today's Web. [...]
Published in Yazan Boshmaf, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov, and Matei Ripeanu. The socialbot network: when bots socialize for fame and money. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'11), December 2011:
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On the Imbalance of the Security Problem Space and its Expected Consequences / Konstantin Beznosov ; Olga Beznosova [LERSSE-RefJnlPaper-2008-006]
Purpose – This paper aims to report on the results of an analysis of the computer security problem space, to suggest the areas with highest potential for making progress in the attacker-defender game, and to propose questions for future research. [...]
Published in Konstantin Beznosov and Olga Beznosova, "On the Imbalance of the Security Problem Space and its Expected Consequences," Journal of Information Management & Computer Security, Emerald, vol. 15 n.5, September 2007, pp.420-431.:
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Towards Understanding IT Security Professionals and Their Tools / David Botta ; Rodrigo Werlinger ; André Gagné ; Konstantin Beznosov ; et al [LERSSE-PRESENTATION-2007-062]
It is estimated that organizations worldwide will spend around $100 Billion USD on IT Security in 2007. [...]
Published in David Botta, Rodrigo Werlinger, André Gagné, Konstantin Beznosov, Sid Fels, Lee Iverson, Brian Fisher, "Towards Understanding IT Security Professionals and Their Tools," CIPS Vancouver Security SIG Meeting, Vancouver, 13 June, 2007, pp.20.:
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