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Contributions to Proceedings:

G. Wondracek, T. Holz, Ch. Platzer, E. Kirda, C. Krügel:
"Is the Internet for Porn? An Insight Into the Online Adult Industry";
in: "The Ninth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2010)", ACM Press, 2010, 14 pages.



English abstract:
The online adult industry is among the most profitable busi-
ness branches on the Internet, and its web sites attract large
amounts of visitors and traffic. Nevertheless, no study has
yet characterized the industry´s economical and security-
related structure. As cyber-criminals are motivated by fi-
nancial incentives, a deeper understanding and identifica-
tion of the economic actors and interdependencies in the
online adult business is important for analyzing security-
related aspects of this industry.
In this paper, we provide a survey of the different eco-
nomic roles that adult web sites assume, and highlight their
economic and technical features. We provide insights into
security flaws and potential points of interest for cyber-
criminals. We achieve this by applying a combination of
automatic and manual analysis techniques to investigate the
economic structure of the online adult industry and its busi-
ness cases. Furthermore, we also performed several exper-
iments to gain a better understanding of the flow of visitors
to these sites and the related cash flow, and report on the
lessons learned while operating adult web sites on our own.


Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_190519.pdf



Related Projects:
Project Head Paolo Milani Comparetti:
Worldwide Observatory of Malicious Behaviors and Attack Threats


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