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The Goals and Challenges of Click Fraud Penetration Testing Systems

  • Carmelo Kintana
  • David Turner
  • Jia-Yu Pan
  • Ahmed Metwally
  • Neil Daswani
  • Erika Chin
  • Andrew Bortz
International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (2009)

Abstract

It is important for search and pay-per-click engines to penetration test their click fraud detection systems, in order to find potential vulnerabilities and correct them before fraudsters can exploit them. In this paper, we describe: (1) some goals and desirable qualities of a click fraud penetration testing system, based on our experience, and (2) our experiences with the challenges of building and using a click fraud penetration testing system called Camelot that has been in use at Google.

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