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Take This Personally: Pollution Attacks on Personalized Services
Xing and colleagues show the personalization engines behind YouTube, Amazon and Google search can be steered by outsiders. Third-party requests inject entries into a victim's profile without their knowledge, perturbing the recommendation algorithms so an attacker-chosen video, product or low-ranked site gains visibility. Demonstrated against all three services.
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- Xinyu Xing, Wei Meng, Dan Doozan, Alex C. Snoeren, Nick Feamster and Wenke Lee
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- usenix.org
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