Syed Mahbub

• Doctor of Philosophy
• La Trobe University

Although several machine learning driven solutions are deemed to be effective at detecting data breaches, the recent proliferation in data breach incidents resulting from cyber attacks demands an updated, thorough analysis of machine learning (ML) based data breach countermeasures to identify research gaps and guide future studies. In view of this,...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of contextual features on automatic detection accuracy of online recruitment frauds in Australian job market. In addition, the study aims to unearth the significance of localisation of such approaches. The study first generates a dataset based on a local and semi-structured advertising platfor...

During the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, the social media was flooded with misinformation. Irrespective of the type of the misinformation, such contents played a significant role in increasing confusion among people in the middle of an ongoing crisis. The purpose of the study is to investigate the nature of a specific type of misinformation, i.e., ru...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of predatory approach words in the detection of cyberbullying and to propose a mechanism of generating a dictionary of such approach words. The research incorporates analysis of chat logs from convicted felons, to generate a dictionary of sexual approach words. By analysing data across multiple so...

Astroturfing is one of the most impactful threats on today’s internet. It is the process of masking and portraying a doctored message to the general population in a way as though it originated from the grass-root level. The concept of astroturfing detection is started to gain popularity among researchers in social media, e-commerce and politics. Wi...

Astroturfing is one of the most impactful threats on today's internet. It is the process of masking and portraying a doctored message to the general population in a way as though it originated from the grass-root level. The concept of astroturfing detection is started to gain popularity among researchers in social media, e-commerce and politics. Wi...

Due to the proliferation of data and services in everyday life, we face challenges to ascertain all the necessary contexts and associated contextual conditions and enable applications to utilize relevant information about the contexts. The ability to control context-sensitive access to data resources has become ever more important as the form of th...

Due to the proliferation of data and services in everyday life, we face challenges to ascertain all the necessary contexts and associated contextual conditions and enable applications to utilize relevant information about the contexts. The ability to control context-sensitive access to data resources has become ever more important as the form of th...

The recent growth of online recruitment and candidate management systems has established yet another media for fraudsters on the internet. The ever-growing size of the candidate pool has forced different industries to move to web-based candidate management systems. The advantages of such web-based systems are substantial. On one hand, they are the...