PreSTA: Preventing Malicious Behavior Using Spatio-Temporal Reputation

Abstract

FUTURE: WIKIPEDIA -- PURPOSE: Build a blacklist of user-names/IPs based on the probability they will vandalize. TEMPORAL: Straightforward, vandals are probably repeat offenders * Registered users have IDs indicating when they joined, are new users more likely to vandalize? SPATIAL: Geographical -- Based on user location (i.e., Washington, DC) * Topical: A user may vandalize one topic (Rush Limbaugh) while properly editing another (Barack Obama) * Anonymous users: IP address properties * Certain administrators have rollback (revert) privileges * Comment: Reverted edit by X to last edition by Y.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 04, 2009
Accession Number
ADA519207

Entities

People

  • Andrew G. West

Organizations

  • University of Pennsylvania

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Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Classification
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineering
  • Feedback
  • Filtration
  • Hierarchies
  • Information Operations
  • Lightweight
  • Machine Learning
  • Network Protocols
  • Routing Protocols
  • Spammers
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Three Dimensional

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