Coull, Scott E.; Szymanski, Boleslaw K. - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 52 (2008) 8, pp. 4116-4131
The masquerade attack, where an attacker takes on the identity of a legitimate user to maliciously utilize that user's privileges, poses a serious threat to the security of information systems. Such attacks completely undermine traditional security mechanisms due to the trust imparted to user...