Search Results for author: Mustaque Ahamad

Found 4 papers, 2 papers with code

Reinforcement Learning-based Counter-Misinformation Response Generation: A Case Study of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation

1 code implementation11 Mar 2023 Bing He, Mustaque Ahamad, Srijan Kumar

In this work, we create two novel datasets of misinformation and counter-misinformation response pairs from in-the-wild social media and crowdsourcing from college-educated students.

Fact Checking Misinformation +1

PETGEN: Personalized Text Generation Attack on Deep Sequence Embedding-based Classification Models

1 code implementation14 Sep 2021 Bing He, Mustaque Ahamad, Srijan Kumar

Here we create a novel adversarial attack model against deep user sequence embedding based classification models, which use the sequence of user posts to generate user embeddings and detect malicious users.

Adversarial Attack Text Generation

The Role of the Crowd in Countering Misinformation: A Case Study of the COVID-19 Infodemic

no code implementations11 Nov 2020 Nicholas Micallef, Bing He, Srijan Kumar, Mustaque Ahamad, Nasir Memon

Concerned citizens (i. e., the crowd), who are users of the platforms where misinformation appears, can play a crucial role in disseminating fact-checking information and in countering the spread of misinformation.

Fact Checking Misinformation

By Hook or by Crook: Exposing the Diverse Abuse Tactics of Technical Support Scammers

no code implementations25 Sep 2017 Bharat Srinivasan, Athanasios Kountouras, Najmeh Miramirkhani, Monjur Alam, Nick Nikiforakis, Manos Antonakakis, Mustaque Ahamad

Although recent research has provided insights into TSS, these scams have now evolved to exploit ubiquitously used online services such as search and sponsored advertisements served in response to search queries.

Cryptography and Security

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