Publications

My PhD thesis, and research papers relating to Phishalytics, are available below:

PhD Thesis

BELL, S. How Many Phish Can Tweet? Investigating the Effectiveness of Twitter's Phishing and Malware Defence System. Royal Holloway, University of London (2021).

Access PhD thesis: PDF / RHUL Pure

 

Time-of-Click Twitter Study

Winner of 2 research paper awards, for categories: Best Paper and Best Student Paper.

BELL, S., AND KOMISARCZUK, P. Measuring the Effectiveness of Twitter's URL Shortener (t.co) at Protecting Users from Phishing and Malware Attacks. In Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference (2020).

Access paper: PDF / ACM

 

Blacklist Analysis Study

BELL, S., AND KOMISARCZUK, P. An Analysis of Phishing Blacklists: Google Safe Browsing, OpenPhish, and PhishTank. In Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference (2020).

Access paper: PDF / ACM

 

Time-of-Post Twitter Study

BELL, S., PATERSON, K., AND CAVALLARO, L. Catch Me (On Time) If You Can: Understanding the Effectiveness of Twitter URL Blacklists. arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.02520 (2019).

Access paper: PDF / arXiv