The Goals and Challenges of Click Fraud Penetration Testing Systems

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.

Citation: 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, 2009.

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