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Early Identification of Violent Criminal Gang Members
Elham Shaabani, Ashkan Aleali, Paulo Shakarian +1
Gang violence is a major problem in the United States accounting for a large fraction of homicides and other violent crime. In this paper, we study the problem of early identificat…
Toward Order-of-Magnitude Cascade Prediction
Ruocheng Guo, Elham Shaabani, Abhinav Bhatnagar +1
When a piece of information (microblog, photograph, video, link, etc.) starts to spread in a social network, an important question arises: will it spread to "viral" proportions --…
Mining for Causal Relationships: A Data-Driven Study of the Islamic State
Andrew Stanton, Amanda Thart, Ashish Jain +3
The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) is a dominant insurgent group operating in Iraq and Syria that rose to prominence when it took over Mosul in June, 2014. In this paper,…
Malware Task Identification: A Data Driven Approach
Eric Nunes, Casey Buto, Paulo Shakarian +4
Identifying the tasks a given piece of malware was designed to perform (e.g. logging keystrokes, recording video, establishing remote access, etc.) is a difficult and time-consumin…
Cyber-Deception and Attribution in Capture-the-Flag Exercises
Eric Nunes, Nimish Kulkarni, Paulo Shakarian +2
Attributing the culprit of a cyber-attack is widely considered one of the major technical and policy challenges of cyber-security. The lack of ground truth for an individual respon…
Cyber Attacks and Public Embarrassment: A Survey of Some Notable Hacks
Jana Shakarian, Paulo Shakarian, Andrew Ruef
We hear it all too often in the media: an organization is attacked, its data, often containing personally identifying information, is made public, and a hacking group emerges to cl…