Kurt Thomas

5.2k citations
47 papers · 3.3k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 26

Kurt Thomas

44 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Understanding the mirai botnet7442010202620152020200400600

Peers

Kurt Thomas
Comparison fields: 5 of 88
  • Signal Processing 1.3k
  • Information Systems 2.2k
  • Computer Networks and Communications 1.7k
  • Artificial Intelligence 1.5k
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 218
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Fields of papers citing papers by Kurt Thomas

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Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Kurt Thomas, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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1 20250
2 20251
3 202426
4 202321
5 20209
6 201913
7 201997
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Data Breaches: User Comprehension, Expectations, and Concerns with Handling Exposed Data
20188
9
Understanding the mirai botnetbreakdown →
2017744
10
Investigating Commercial Pay-Per-Install and the Distribution of Unwanted Software
201627
11 201645
12
Trends and lessons from three years fighting malicious extensions
201537
13
Framing dependencies introduced by underground commoditization
201562
14 201561
15 201568
16 201425
17
Trafficking fraudulent accounts: the role of the underground market in Twitter spam and abuse
2013158
18
Practical comprehensive bounds on surreptitious communication over DNS
201323
19
Adapting social spam infrastructure for political censorship
201251
20 20103

About Kurt Thomas

Kurt Thomas is a scholar working on Information Systems, Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence, having authored 47 papers that have together received 3.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Spam and Phishing Detection (26 papers), Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (15 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (13 papers), Network Security and Intrusion Detection (12 papers), Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies (8 papers), Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (7 papers), User Authentication and Security Systems (6 papers) and Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Signal Processing (1.3k citations), Information Systems (2.2k citations) and Computer Networks and Communications (1.7k citations). Kurt Thomas has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Spain. Frequent co-authors include Vern Paxson, Chris Grier, Dawn Song, Elie Bursztein, Michael Zhang, Damon McCoy, Justin Ma, Luca Invernizzi, Zakir Durumeric and Michael Bailey. Their work appears in journals such as IEEE Security & Privacy, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, USENIX Security Symposium and ACI Journal Proceedings.

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