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My paper about spam on Twitter has been accepted into ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Oct 2010. It’s going to be a fun presentation in Chicago, and I’m looking forward to continuing the project now that we have the first part of our work out on it.

Overall it was an interesting project that’s goal was to understand spam on Twitter and what, if anything, is the difference between Twitter spam and email spam (besides that it’s shorter). More details on the results and analysis after the camera ready…

Official citation:

Chris Grier, Kurt Thomas, Vern Paxson and Michael Zhang, “@spam: The underground on 140 characters or less,” To appear in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October 2010.

Sam, Shuo and I have had our paper accepted at the 2008 Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) conference this spring. Here’s the PDF.

It was also written up in the news! “Secure web browsing with the OP web browser”, was featured in an article on eWeek in an article titled “Is There Room for a Security Browser?” By Ryan Naraine and the. The eWeek article was also Slashdotted (slashdot).