Online social networks (OSN) are a permanent presence in today's personal and
professional lives of a huge segment of the population, with direct consequences to offline …

" It also provides a solid, up-to-date reference or self-study tutorial for system engineers,
programmers, system managers, network managers, product marketing personnel, system …

In this study, we examine the abuse of online social networks at the hands of spammers
through the lens of the tools, techniques, and support infrastructure they rely upon. To …

Online social networks (OSNs) are popular collaboration and communication tools for
millions of users and their friends. Unfortunately, in the wrong hands, they are also effective …

The problem of email spam has grown significantly over the past few years. It is not just a
nuisance for users but also it is damaging for those who fall for scams and other attacks. This …

Recent years have seen extensive diversification of the “underground economy” associated
with malware and the subversion of Internet-connected systems. This trend towards …

Spam-based advertising is a business. While it has engendered both widespread antipathy
and a multi-billion dollar anti-spam industry, it continues to exist because it fuels a profitable …

We investigate the emergence of the exploit-as-a-service model for driveby browser
compromise. In this regime, attackers pay for an exploit kit or service to do the" dirty work" of …

Miscreants register thousands of new domains every day to launch Internet-scale attacks,
such as spam, phishing, and drive-by downloads. Quickly and accurately determining a …

In this paper we explore the potential of leveraging properties inherent to domain
registrations and their appearance in DNS zone files to predict the malicious use of domains …