Detecting Profile Injection Attacks in Collaborative Recommender Systems

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

  • Affiliations:
  • DePaul University;DePaul University;DePaul University;DePaul University

  • Venue:
  • CEC-EEE '06 Proceedings of the The 8th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology and The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce, and E-Services
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Collaborative recommender systems are known to be highly vulnerable to profile injection attacks, attacks that involve the insertion of biased profiles into the ratings database for the purpose of altering the system's recommendation behavior. In prior work, we and others have identified a number of models for such attacks and shown their effectiveness. This paper describes a classification approach to the problem of detecting and responding to profile injection attacks. This technique significantly reduces the effectiveness of the most powerful attack models previously studied.