Specialization within the underground hinges on open communication between criminals who advertise goods and services as well as potential buyers. Forums, chats, storefronts, and freelance labor pages all streamline abuse, but as a consequence expose the broad range of criminal… Continue Reading
I found this message from hxxp://spamvilla.com amusing for some reason (and totally unrelated to my research):
This post is based on research conducted in collaboration with Twitter, to appear in Usenix Security 2013. A pdf is available under my publications. Any views or opinions discussed herein are my own and not those of Twitter. As web… Continue Reading
In the process of working on my thesis, I’ve had to write some new background content on the taxonomy of social network spam. I figured I would share these ideas here, since the probability of someone reading my search-indexed blog… Continue Reading