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MIST: Missing Person Intelligence Synthesis Toolkit
Elham Shaabani, Hamidreza Alvari, Paulo Shakarian +1
Each day, approximately 500 missing persons cases occur that go unsolved/unresolved in the United States. The non-profit organization known as the Find Me Group (FMG), led by forme…
Toward Early and Order-of-Magnitude Cascade Prediction in Social Networks
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 - whe…
A Non-Parametric Learning Approach to Identify Online Human Trafficking
Hamidreza Alvari, Paulo Shakarian, J. E. Kelly Snyder
Human trafficking is among the most challenging law enforcement problems which demands persistent fight against from all over the globe. In this study, we leverage readily availabl…
Darknet and Deepnet Mining for Proactive Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence
Eric Nunes, Ahmad Diab, Andrew Gunn +7
In this paper, we present an operational system for cyber threat intelligence gathering from various social platforms on the Internet particularly sites on the darknet and deepnet.…
Product Offerings in Malicious Hacker Markets
Ericsson Marin, Ahmad Diab, Paulo Shakarian
Marketplaces specializing in malicious hacking products - including malware and exploits - have recently become more prominent on the darkweb and deepweb. We scrape 17 such sites a…
An Empirical Evaluation Of Social Influence Metrics
Nikhil Kumar, Ruocheng Guo, Ashkan Aleali +1
Predicting when an individual will adopt a new behavior is an important problem in application domains such as marketing and public health. This paper examines the perfor- mance of…