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Stealing Reality: When Criminals Become Data Scientists (or Vice Versa)
November/December 2011 (vol. 26 no. 6)
pp. 22-30
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Yaniv Altshuler, Nadav Aharony, Alex Pentland, Yuval Elovici, Manuel Cebrian, "Stealing Reality: When Criminals Become Data Scientists (or Vice Versa)," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 22-30, November/December, 2011.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MIS.2011.78,
author = {Yaniv Altshuler and Nadav Aharony and Alex Pentland and Yuval Elovici and Manuel Cebrian},
title = {Stealing Reality: When Criminals Become Data Scientists (or Vice Versa)},
journal ={IEEE Intelligent Systems},
volume = {26},
number = {6},
issn = {1541-1672},
year = {2011},
pages = {22-30},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIS.2011.78},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Yaniv Altshuler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nadav Aharony, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alex Pentland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yuval Elovici, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Manuel Cebrian, University of California, San Diego

Stealing-reality attacks attempt to steal social network and behavioral information through data collection and inference techniques, making them more dangerous than other types of identity theft.

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Index Terms:
intelligent systems, social and economic computing, malware, mobile networks security, advanced persistent threat, stealth attacks
Citation:
Yaniv Altshuler, Nadav Aharony, Alex Pentland, Yuval Elovici, Manuel Cebrian, "Stealing Reality: When Criminals Become Data Scientists (or Vice Versa)," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 22-30, Nov.-Dec. 2011, doi:10.1109/MIS.2011.78
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