Publications related to Internet bot

An Exploratory Study of Reactions to Bot Comments on GitHub

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Xinyang Lu

The widespread use of bots to support software development makes social coding platforms such as GitHub a particularly rich source of data for the study of human-bot interaction. Software development bots are used to automate repetitive tasks, interacting ...

ACM2022

The Role of Compromised Accounts in Social Media Manipulation

Tugrulcan Elmas

In recent years we have seen a marked increase in disinformation including as part of a strategy of so-called hybrid warfare. Adversaries not only directly spread misleading content but manipulate social media by employing sophisticated techniques that exp ...

EPFL2022

Automatic Online Fake News Detection Combining Content and Social Signals

Stefano Moret, Gabriele Ballarin

The proliferation and rapid diffusion of fake news on the Internet highlight the need of automatic hoax detection systems. In the context of social networks, machine learning (ML) methods can be used for this purpose. Fake news detection strategies are tra ...

IEEE2018

Atom: Horizontally Scaling Strong Anonymity

Bryan Alexander Ford, Henry Nathaniel Corrigan-Gibbs

Atom is an anonymous messaging system that protects against traffic-analysis attacks. Unlike many prior systems, each Atom server touches only a small fraction of the total messages routed through the network. As a result, the system’s capacity scales near ...

Association for Computing Machinery2017

A Decentralized Recommender System for Effective Web Credibility Assessment

Karl Aberer, Alexandra Olteanu, Jean-Eudes Marie Ranvier

An overwhelming and growing amount of data is available online. The problem of untrustworthy online information is augmented by its high economic potential and its dynamic nature, e.g. transient domain names, dynamic content, etc. In this paper, we address ...

2012

ISPs and Ad Networks Against Botnet Ad Fraud

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Maxime Raya, Nevena Vratonjic

Botnets are a serious threat on the Internet and require huge resources to be thwarted. ISPs are in the best position to fight botnets and there are a number of recently proposed initiatives that focus on how ISPs should detect and remediate bots. However, ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2010

Scalable Network-layer Defense Against Internet Bandwidth-Flooding Attacks

Aikaterini Argyraki

In a bandwidth-flooding attack, compromised sources send high-volume traffic to the target with the purpose of causing congestion in its tail circuit and disrupting its legitimate communications. In this paper, we present Active Internet Traffic Filtering ...

2009

Optimal Filtering of Source Address Prefixes: Models and Algorithms

Aikaterini Argyraki

How can we protect the network infrastructure from malicious traffic, such as scanning, malicious code propagation, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks? One mechanism for blocking malicious traffic is filtering: access control lists (ACLs) can ...

2009

Of Malicious Motes and Suspicious Sensors: On the Efficiency of Malicious Interference in Wireless Networks

Rachid Guerraoui, Seth Gilbert

How efficiently can a malicious device disrupt a single-hop wireless network? Imagine two honest players attempting to exchange information in the presence of a malicious adversary that can disrupt communication by jamming or overwriting messages. Assume t ...

2006