Sybil attacks in which an adversary forges a potentially unbounded number of identities are
a danger to distributed systems and online social networks. The goal of sybil defense is to …

Wireless ad hoc networks are vulnerable to Sybil attacks due to the broadcast nature of the
wireless medium and an absence of central authority. In a Sybil attack, an adversary …

The emerging Internet-of-Things (IoT) are vulnerable to Sybil attacks where attackers can
manipulate fake identities or abuse pseudoidentities to compromise the effectiveness of the …

Twitter is one of the most popular microblogging services, which is generally used to share
news and updates through short messages restricted to 280 characters. However, its open …

Sybil attacks are a fundamental threat to the security of distributed systems. Recently, there
has been a growing interest in leveraging social networks to mitigate Sybil attacks. However …

Online social networks are known to be vulnerable to the so-called Sybil attack, in which an
attacker maintains massive fake accounts (also called Sybils) and uses them to perform …

In this paper, we propose a technique called LACT for automatically categorizing software
systems in open-source repositories. LACT is based on latent Dirichlet Allocation, an …

The problem of malicious activities in online social networks, such as Sybil attacks and
malevolent use of fake identities, can severely affect the social activities in which users …

In an online social network (like Twitter), a botmaster (ie, leader among a group of social
bots) establishes a social relationship among legitimate participants to reduce the …

Detecting Sybils in online social networks (OSNs) is a fundamental security research
problem as adversaries can leverage Sybils to perform various malicious activities. Structure …