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Talon: An Automated Framework for Cross-Device Tracking Detection
Konstantinos Solomos, Panagiotis Ilia, Sotiris Ioannidis +1
Although digital advertising fuels much of today's free Web, it typically does so at the cost of online users' privacy, due to the continuous tracking and leakage of users' persona…
LOBO -- Evaluation of Generalization Deficiencies in Twitter Bot Classifiers
Juan Echeverría, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis +3
Botnets in online social networks are increasingly often affecting the regular flow of discussion, attacking regular users and their posts, spamming them with irrelevant or offensi…
There goes Wally: Anonymously sharing your location gives you away
Apostolos Pyrgelis, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis +2
With current technology, a number of entities have access to user mobility traces at different levels of spatio-temporal granularity. At the same time, users frequently reveal thei…
Large-Scale Learning from Data Streams with Apache SAMOA
Nicolas Kourtellis, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Albert Bifet
Apache SAMOA (Scalable Advanced Massive Online Analysis) is an open-source platform for mining big data streams. Big data is defined as datasets whose size is beyond the ability of…
Cookie Synchronization: Everything You Always Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask
Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Nicolas Kourtellis, Evangelos P. Markatos
User data is the primary input of digital advertising, fueling the free Internet as we know it. As a result, web companies invest a lot in elaborate tracking mechanisms to acquire…
"You Know What to Do": Proactive Detection of YouTube Videos Targeted by Coordinated Hate Attacks
Enrico Mariconti, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Jeremy Blackburn +5
Video sharing platforms like YouTube are increasingly targeted by aggression and hate attacks. Prior work has shown how these attacks often take place as a result of "raids," i.e.,…
The Web of False Information: Rumors, Fake News, Hoaxes, Clickbait, and Various Other Shenanigans
Savvas Zannettou, Michael Sirivianos, Jeremy Blackburn +1
A new era of Information Warfare has arrived. Various actors, including state-sponsored ones, are weaponizing information on Online Social Networks to run false information campaig…
A Unified Deep Learning Architecture for Abuse Detection
Antigoni-Maria Founta, Despoina Chatzakou, Nicolas Kourtellis +3
Hate speech, offensive language, sexism, racism and other types of abusive behavior have become a common phenomenon in many online social media platforms. In recent years, such div…
Large Scale Crowdsourcing and Characterization of Twitter Abusive Behavior
Antigoni-Maria Founta, Constantinos Djouvas, Despoina Chatzakou +6
In recent years, offensive, abusive and hateful language, sexism, racism and other types of aggressive and cyberbullying behavior have been manifesting with increased frequency, an…