PPT-Detecting and Characterizing Social Spam Campaigns Hongyu Gao

Detecting and Characterizing Social Spam Campaigns Hongyu Gao Jun Hu Christo Wilson Zhichun Li Yan Chen and Ben Y Zhao Northwestern University US Northwestern Huazhong Univ. Hongyu . Gao. , . Jun Hu. , . Christo . Wilson. , . Zhichun. . Li. , . Yan . Chen. . and . Ben Y. . Zhao. Northwestern University, US. Northwestern / . Huazhong. Univ. . of . Sci. & Tech, China. Alan Lee. NTT MSC. Background. Working group of the ISF. TIME, Maxis, Jaring, NTT MSC. Need for collaboration among the IASP at National level. To Combat Spam. Objectives. To establish a national anti-spam efforts. Filtering. Service. Kurt Thomas. , Chris Grier, Justin Ma,. Vern . Paxson. , Dawn Song. University of California, Berkeley. International Computer Science Institute. Motivation. Social Networks. (. Facebook, Twitter). A social initiative against mobile spam. Problem. Mobile revolution in India led to sharp decline in cost of SMS/Call. It makes sense to advertise on mobile.. Spam SMS and calls.. Gross infringement of customer’s privacy.. Lydia Song, Lauren Steimle, . Xiaoxiao. . Xu. Outline. Introduction to Project . Pre-processing . Dimensionality Reduction. Brief discussion of different algorithms. K-nearest. D. ecision tree. Logistic regression. Hongyu. . Gao. , . Yan . Chen, Kathy Lee, Diana . Palsetia. . and . Alok. . Choudhary. Lab for Internet and Security Technology (LIST). Department of EECS. Northwestern University. Background. 2. Background. Author : Kirill . Levchenko. , Andreas . Pitsillidis. , . Neha. . Chachra. , Brandon Enright, . M’ark. . F’elegyh’azi. , Chris Grier, Tristan Halvorson, Chris . Kanich. , Christian . Kreibich. threat to Internet users. A collaborative approach. is needed to provide the best spam-mitigation solutions. and security protection. . The Challenge of Spam. Different stakeholders are taking different steps. Myle. . Ott. , . Yejin. . Choi,. . Claire. . Cardie. ,. . Jeffrey. . T.. . Hancock. Cornell. . University. Yu. . Huang. 1. What Does It Mean?. “Finding . Deceptive Opinion Spam. . by Any . . Brandon Haller, Ph.D.. Assistant Director, Physical Infrastructure. U.S. Government Accountability Office. December 4, 2012 . Mission. General Accounting Office vs. Government Accountability Office. By . Vacha. Dave , . Saikat. . guha. and yin . zhang. Presenter: . Uddipan. . chatterjee. Key Ideas. Advertisement plays an important role in the promotion and sale of all products.. Click-spam is fraudulent process of getting the user to click on a link (leading to an ad) which they have no interest in.. threat to Internet users. A collaborative approach. is needed to provide the best spam-mitigation solutions. and security protection. . The Challenge of Spam. Different stakeholders are taking different steps. By . Gianluca. . Stringhini. , . Christopher . Kruegel. and Giovanni . Vigna. Presented By Awrad Mohammed Ali. 1. Introduction.. The Popular Social Networks.. Data Collection.. Data Analysis.. Spam Bots Analysis.. DeLoatch, . Executive Director FGDC . Steering Committee Meeting. June 26, 2014. V-2. 2014 GAO Engagement. New (2. nd. ) engagement - GAO letter received January 6, 2014. Issues under review/Objective(s)/Key questions(s):.