Analysis and detection of segment-focused attacks against collaborative recommendation

  • Authors:
  • Bamshad Mobasher;Robin Burke;Chad Williams;Runa Bhaumik

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Web Intelligence, School of Computer Science, Telecommunication and Information Systems, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois;Center for Web Intelligence, School of Computer Science, Telecommunication and Information Systems, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois;Center for Web Intelligence, School of Computer Science, Telecommunication and Information Systems, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois;Center for Web Intelligence, School of Computer Science, Telecommunication and Information Systems, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

  • Venue:
  • WebKDD'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Knowledge Discovery on the Web: advances in Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Significant vulnerabilities have recently been identified in collaborative filtering recommender systems. These vulnerabilities mostly emanate from the open nature of such systems and their reliance on user-specified judgments for building profiles. Attackers can easily introduce biased data in an attempt to force the system to “adapt” in a manner advantageous to them. Our research in secure personalization is examining a range of attack models, from the simple to the complex, and a variety of recommendation techniques. In this chapter, we explore an attack model that focuses on a subset of users with similar tastes and show that such an attack can be highly successful against both user-based and item-based collaborative filtering. We also introduce a detection model that can significantly decrease the impact of this attack.